Dinosaurs' footsteps
Fossil prints known as Dinosaurs' Footsteps were discovered in the surrounding of Godovič. Six footprints of the size 12-14 cm have been preserved. They belong to the predecessor of dinosaurs which...
View ArticleScopolijev vrt - the botanical garden
J.A. Scopoli was the first miners' doctor in Idrija and an important European natural scientist who accomplished the best of his work in Idrija.The botanical knowledge og the former region Carniola...
View ArticleSmrekova draga
SMREKOVA DRAGASmrekova draga belongs to the forest reserve Golaki. In the spacious sinkhole, nature shaped an extraordinary inversion in its arrangement of vegetation. The layers of plants are arranged...
View ArticleParadana
PARADANAThe distance of Paradana forest and botanic reserve from Idrija (taking the road to Lokve) amounts to some 32 km. The glacial and karst vale and caves from an example of an exceptionally rich...
View ArticleGačnik
GAČNIKGačnik, an unusually appealing and mysterious ravine. With numerous waterfalls, hollows, rapids, canyons, and pools it has animated people’s fantasies since time immemorial.
View ArticleA summer bathing spot at Lajšt
A SUMMER BATHING SPOT AT LAJŠT - The Strug Valley generously displays its crystal clear, murmuring waters, countless water pools (“žonfi”), small suspended footbridges, and precipitous, overhanging...
View ArticleZgornja Idrijca Natural Park
ZGORNJA IDRIJCA NATURAL PARK – The Zgornja Idrijca Natural Park was inaugurated and adequately protected by the Municipality of Idrija in 1992. The park’s area extends across 4230 hectares, which is...
View ArticleChurch of Mary's Annunciation
The church is not only an architectural masterpiece; it has a variety of multilayered paintings as well. At the entrance façade there are several fragments from the Passion of Christ. The workshop from...
View ArticleVojsko, Idrijske klavže
Klavže barrages on the Idrijca are the largest in our country. Before 1774 they were designed by Jožef Mrak, a surveyor in the mine of Idrija. The dam was degraded when it was remade into a...
View ArticleScopoli's house
Scopolis's square bears the name og the famous naturalist Janez Anton Scopoli, who, as the first Idrijan doctor, resided and performed his medical practice in "Switzerland", i.e. a certain recently...
View ArticleTown hall
The animated and pleasantly partitioned Art Nouveau Town Hall (the mznicipality's head office) was completed in 1898 by the patriotic mayor, Dragotin Lapajne, founder of the Natural Sciences Secondary...
View ArticleMiner's house
IDRIJAN MINER’S HOUSEJust above Frančiška’s Shaft stands a dominant “miner’s house”, i.e. a typical, reconstructed Idrijan residential house of former days, which is maintained by the Idrija Municipal...
View ArticleJurij Vega secondary school Idrija
THE FIRST SLOVENIAN NON-CLASSICAL SCHOOLJURIJ VEGA SECONDARY SCHOOL IDRIJAThe castle’s near vicinity is dominated by the monumental edifice of the former non-classical secondary school – today’s...
View ArticleMovie Theater - theater
THEATER – MOVIE THEATERThe Former theater, presently the town’s movie theater, which is considered to be the oldest preserved theatre venue in Slovenia. The building testifies to an interesting and...
View ArticleChurch of St. Ana on Ledinica near Žiri
You could get beautiful view to Žiri and its surroundingsfrom the church of Saint Ana on Ledinica. It was documented in land register from the year 1501. In the 17th century the church was almost...
View ArticleAjman Castle in Sv. Duh
Ajman castle was built by the Loka chief Matija Lampfrizheim in the 17th century (in the year 1689) on the land of three farms. A large number of huts belonged to the castle. Its name remained from the...
View ArticleSt. Paul’s church (Črnotoče)
The church is placed in the village cemetery. In the entrance there are four stairs bound with two stone pillars from 17th century. This is also the period of the first restoration of the church and...
View ArticleGallery and crypt under the square Mestni trg
The Crypt is the only piece remained of the Hl. Barbara Church that once stood on the location of the present-day main square of the town. It was built mainly with the money donated by miners, who...
View ArticleChurch of St. Urh
CHURCH OF ST. URH – The parish church stands in the middle of the village, to which four over 200-year-old chapels are linked; extracts from the works of four evangelists are read in front of them...
View ArticleChurch of St. Joseph
CHURCH OF ST. JOSEPH – The central cultural and historical monument in Vojsko is the parish church of St. Joseph from 1669, which had been for a long time a subsidiary of Spodnja Idrija. The village...
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