Otlica - Kovk
villages nearby

The village of Otlica lies in the Vipava Valley and comprises several isolated farms and four scattered hamlets, namely Sibirija, Kitajska, Kurja Vas and Cerkovna Vas. Otlica is situated on the Gora Plateau, on the margin of the Trnovo Forest, which lies on the high Karst plateau, or to be more specific, on the north-western side of the Vipava Valley, along the road Predmeja – Col.

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Embraced by the Mt. Čaven
wandering

EMBRACED BY THE MT. ČAVEN

KAMNJE
Our journey shall take us towards the many pictouresque villages at the foothills of the Mt. Čaven. Gather in the village Kamnje, which is located only a few kilometres from Ajdovščina (in the direction of Nova Gorica). The first records that mention the parish of Kamnje date back to the 14th century. The Kamnje Manuscript, which originated in...

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ANTON BRECELJ (1875 – 1943) - Politician, Journalist and Doctor
important personalities

Anton Brecelj was born on 9 June 1875 in the village of Žapuže near the village of Šturje. His father was Franc Brecelj, a tailor and an owner of a small property and his mother was Terezija Slejko. He attended primary school in Šturje, grammar school in Ljubljana and in 1895 he enrolled for the study of medicine and was awarded a doctorate in 1901. At first he worked as an assistant at a clinic in Graz, but in 1903 he returned to Gorizia, where he worked as a private doctor and later as the...

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