LACS DE PANNONIE

This leisure complex (Panonska Jezera) houses three artificial saltwater lakes that attract up to 17,000 visitors a day in summer. It is located in the city center, 350 m northeast of Liberty Square. Its name derives from the Pannonian Sea, which dried up 10 million years ago, leaving large deposits of salt in the region and forming the vast Pannonian Plain that stretches as far as the Ukraine. Thanks to a complex filtration system, the first lake was created in 2003 by combining brine pumped from the Tetima salt wells (10 km to the north as the crow flies) with freshwater from the Modrac artificial lake. The result: salt water like the sea, but sanitized like a swimming pool and retaining certain curative properties. Two other lakes have since been added. Lake no. 1 is the largest: 10,140^m2 in surface area, 15,000^m3 of water and 1.6 m in depth. The other two are 5,300 and 3,800^m2 respectively, with lake no. 3 1.8 m deep. The latter is equipped with slides, hard contours like a swimming pool and a footbridge that crosses it. The other two are equipped with beaches. In addition, five small pools and two cascading pools in lake no. 1 serve as a children's water park. In summer, the complex is packed to the rafters. Families will also find a playground, fourteen bars and/or restaurants as well as the reconstruction of a Neolithic lakeside village and the Pannonica Museum dedicated to the geology of the region.