Guide: Northern Primorska

Northern Primorska

Nova Gorica is a young city that developed after 1947 when the city of Gorica was given to Italy. The urban area of the city doesn’t have much of the architectural heritage, but there is a monastery of Kostanjevica on its southern end.

After the First World War they restored the Franciscan monastery, where you can visit the tomb of the Bourbon dynasty and the church of St. Mary. North of the center is Solkan, a town with more than 1000 years of tradition.

The typical thing of the Vipava Valley is the buria wind, which is a cold and violent wind that descends to the valley from the surrounding hills plateaus. The averega speed of the wind is some 80 km per hour but in the winter it can also reach up to 180 km per hour. This wind is in some way determining the social and cultural conditions of the valley.

 
The Upper Soča River Valley is a wide area in the north-west of Slovenia. It includes the communes of Bovec, Tolmin, and Kobarid. It is a beautiful part of Slovenia that is characterized by high mountains and the emerald color river.  

Idrija is located in a basin in the middle of the Idrija hills where along the tectonic fault pre-alpine and Karst world meet. As the oldest Slovenian mining town Idrija grew simultaneously with the development of the mercury mine.

The mining settlement, established at the end of the 15th century received its market rights in the 17th century and become a city in the 18th century and thus became one of the most important Slovenian centers of Slovenia. Despite the redirection into new branches of industry the 500-years old mining traditions are still kept alive.