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T W P P W T Muzej na prostem Outdoor museum Freilichtmuseum Museo all`aperto Musée en plein air Trdnjava Fortress Festung Fortezza Forteresse Kostnica Ossuary Beinhaus The Isonzo Front 1915 – 1917 Ossario Ossuaire Informacijski center »Pot miru« Visitor centre » e Walk of Peace« During the 1st World War the Isonzo launched by the soldiers of Besucherzentrum »Weg des Friedens« Centro visitatori »Il Sentiero della pace« (1) Front was part of the 600 kilometres long Austria-Hungary and Germany. Centre de visiteurs »Chemin de la Paix« southwest front which ran from the pass The joint Austro-Hungarian-German Spominska cerkev (3) of Stelvio on the Swiss-Italian-Austrian Memorial church Army caught the Italian troops by surprise border trifurcation across Tyrol, the Gedenkkirche with a new fighting strategy in the 12th Chiesa commemorativa Dolomites, the Carnic and Julian Alps, Eglise commémorative Isonzo Battle. As a result the front moved the Upper Soča Region, Goriška Region Spomenik from the Soča to the river Piave in Italy. Monument (2) and the Kras down to the Adriatic Sea. Denkmal The 12th Isonzo Battle is known in his- Monumento The fights along the Soča went on from tory under several names: the Battle near Monument May 1915 through October 1917. This Kobarid, the Miracle of Kobarid, and, in Vojaško pokopališče warfare was characterized by mountain Italian sources, the Disaster at Kobarid.... Military cemetery (4) Soldatenfriedhof combats – at certain points the front rose Cimitero militare Not only the frontline but also the rear Cimetière militaire even to a higher altitude than 2000 me- played an important role with its dumps Pot miru tres – and fights on rocky grounds, which and stores, transport routes, ropeways, Walk of Peace further aggravated the conditions of war- Weg des Friedens (5) airports and hospitals. Sentiero della pace fare. After the initial incertitude, fights Chemin de la Paix and shifts the frontline stabilized and The war heavily inflicted the locals since Vrh (8) Peak trench warfare began. they had to leave their homes and sought Gipfel refuge, and on their return they found Picco Within the 29 months of fighting be- their homes demolished and the land- Sommet tween Italy and Austria-Hungary twelve Jama scape devastated. Cave Isonzo battles took place. Eleven of Höhle (7) them were launched by the Italian Army About 300,000 soldiers lost their lives in Grotta Grotte and the decisive one, the twelfth, was the fights along the Soča. Muzej (6) Museum Museum Museo Musée (9) Naravna znamenitost Natural heritage Natursehenswürdigkeit (10) Monumento naturale Patrimoine naturel Kulturna znamenitost Cultural heritage Kultursehenswürdigkeit (11)
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The Walk of Peace interconnects the areas Numerous remains have been left be- (17) and people and rich cultural and natural hind the front which are now perfectly www.potmiru.si heritage along the onetime Isonzo Front. restored and maintained through the ef- ...... It is a memorial to all who suffered in the forts of various institutions and societies. time of the 1st World War and a warning Military cemeteries, caves, trenches, char- Visitor centre » e Walk of Peace« against wars which should never happen nel houses, chapels, monuments, outdoor Gregorčičeva 8, 5222 Kobarid again. Above all it promotes the value of museums and other memorials – are part peace and the opportunities for common of significant material and non-material Slovenia development. heritage of European history. Their testi- mony, mood and stories form the spine 00386 (0)5 389 01 67 of today's Walk of Peace from the Julian www.potmiru.si Alps to the Adriatic. [email protected] The Walk is uniformly marked, suit- able for hikers and bikers. Major places ...... worth seeing are also accessible by car or bus. The Walk of Peace is a right choice for everyone who wishes to spend their leisure time actively, experience magnifi-
The Walk of Peace from the Alps to the Adriatic, the Isonzo Front 1915-1917, cent views and beauties of nature, learn : RDO Smaragdna pot, : The “Walk of Peace about history and culture, meet the locals, in the Soča Region Foundation” : Branka Klemenc, : experience the lifestyle of today and taste Fundacija Poti miru v Posočju, TIC Kanal, Mestna občina Nova Gorica, Občina Miren - Kostanjevica, Lucijan Trošt, Jožef Člekovič, Mitja Madon, : Matic Leban, delicious local food. Recommended are : Markacija, : Kartografija d.o.o., Ljubljana, guided tours, with local tourist guides. : Gorenjski tisk, : 40.000, 2012. 1. Fortress Kluže 7. Outdoor museum 11. Mt. Globočak Open every day throughout the year! It was built in the present form under Mrzli vrh In the time of the Isonzo Front Austria-Hungary in the years 1881– Globočak was one of the more impor- 1882. In the time of the Isonzo Front it The mountain is densely crisscrossed tant fortified Italian peaks of the served as the place for commands and re- with trenches and caves of both the Kolovrat ridge, since it offered an excel- 15. Cerje belligerent sides. Preserved in one of tic Bovec serve units and also as a dressing station. lent view over the Soča valley and the The memorial to defenders of the the caves is the altar of the Holy Virgin Trg golobarskih žrtev 8, Kobariški muzej (The Kobarid Museum) boasts the most compre- In spite of Italian shelling it remained Banjšice plateau. Arranged hiking paths Slovenian land is designed as a seven- undamaged. Throughout the history which was built by Hungarian soldiers. run past numerous remains. SI - 5230 Bovec tic Kobarid hensive narrative about the Isonzo Front, the mountain warfare in storey tower, a stronghold that the Julian Alps, and the 12th Isonzo Battle or the Battle of Kobarid its image and purpose were subject to The circular path of the museum runs 00386 (0)5 389 64 44 Trg svobode 16, SI - 5222 Kobarid connects the past and the future. The (Caporetto/Karfreit). It complements its offer through annual past the alps of Pretovč and Lapoč. [email protected] changes. Today, a museum with a perma- museum collection will symbolically 00386 (0)5 380 04 90 thematic exhibitions. The relief-models of the Upper Soča Region www.bovec.si nent exhibition is arranged in Kluže. present travelling through time. The [email protected] and Mt. Krn, numerous maps and photographs, the exhibits and www.dolina-soce.com the 20-minute documentary film exhaustively describe the famous incentive for erecting this monument battle which stigmatized some world-famous persons, such as 12. Mt. Korada emerged from the patriotic Ernest Hemingway and Erwin Rommel. organisation TIGR. Expert guides take visitors through the Museum, or lead them The Italian Army fortified this strategic along the Kobarid historical trail and along the onetime battlefield. 2. Outdoor museum peak and used it for observation posts Ravelnik and gun positions. St. Gertrude tic Tolmin (Gendrca) is the harbinger of spring Petra Skalarja 4, SI - 5220 Tolmin It is arranged on the onetime first works in the open air and the patron 00386 (0)5 380 04 80 Austro-Hungarian line of defence on saint of the church under the top of Mt. [email protected] the slope of Mt. Ravelnik in the Bovec Korada. The church, which was first www.dolina-soce.com basin. The circular path connects the mentioned in 1523, was destroyed dur- Gregorčičeva 10, SI-5222 Kobarid, Slovenia cleared up and restored trenches and ing the 1st World War but was Tel.: +386 (0)5 3890000, Fax: +386 (0)5 3890002, connection galleries, pillboxes, caves, E-mail: [email protected] afterwards restored. http://www.kobariski-muzej.si machine-gun emplacements and recon- tic Kanal structions of cabins. Pionirska ulica 2, SI - 5213 Kanal 00386 (0)5 398 12 13 [email protected] 8 16. Monument – Signpost www.tic-kanal.si 3. Outdoor museum Čelo HISTORICAL-ETHNOLOGICAL COLLECTION and the Throne of Borojević tic Brda 8. Memorial church of the Holy Spirit on It consists of the Austro-Hungarian fortified gun position on the slope of The monument – signpost, built by the 43rd Infantry Regiment, was erected in honour Grajska cesta 10, Mt. Svinjak. The trench connects two gun positions, a kitchen, observation post, two the Javorca Plateau of the commander to the 7th Austro-Hungarian Corps, Archduke Joseph, and also had dwelling rooms and a shelter. A beautiful view opens from here over the Bovec basin, SI - 5212 Dobrovo v Brdih It stands in exceptionally splendid natural environment of the Julian Alps and has won the function of a signpost since it gives the distances to Lokvica and Kostanjevica. The Mt. Rombon and other nearby mountains. 00386 (0)5 395 95 94 the European Heritage Label. It was built in the time of the Isonzo Front by the Austro- throne of Borojević (the Emperor's – Borojević's Stone Chair) was named after the com- [email protected] Hungarian soldiers in memory of their dead comrades whose names are burnt in on the mander of the 5th Austro-Hungarian Army, Svetozar Borojević von Bojna. www.brda.si oak boards which open like pages of a book along the walls of the church interior. Every Sunday, soldiers of different religions attended the holy mass there and could, for a short tic Nova Gorica time at least, forget about the war. Delpinova 18 b, SI - 5000 Nova Gorica 00386 (0)5 330 46 00 9. German charnel [email protected] www.novagorica-turizem.com house 17. Krompirjeva jama The museum on cheese-making “OD PLANINE DO PLANIKE” (FROM THE ALP TO ‘PLANIKA’) is the museum It stands on the site of a former mili- 13. Outdoor museum Vodice The natural karst cave offered shelter to of the Planika Dairy (Mlekarna Planika) which has tary cemetery. The artificially built last The area with numerous caves and trenches is arranged as an outdoor museum. On the about five hundred Austro-Hungarian developed its delicious products following the famous soldiers in the 1st World War. It also tic Temnica tradition of the Soča Region cheese-making, reaching resting place of about 1000 German sol- top of Vodice a mausoleum was erected in honour of Italian general Maurizio Ferrante Mlekarna Planika d.o.o. Kobarid served as a storage for food, potato in Temnica 10, centuries back. The heritage of the alps and alpine diers who were killed on the battlefields Gonzaga. His wish was to be buried in the place where his soldiers had died during the pasturing is presented through ethnological exhibits, Gregorčičeva 32 SI - 5296 Kostanjevica na Krasu along the Soča in the 12th Isonzo Bat- 1st World War. Because of the 2nd World War the mausoleum was not completed, so particular, hence its name. The cave was a documentary film and reconstruction of an alpine SI-5222 Kobarid 00386 (0)5 308 00 40 tle consists of stone walls and a central the general was not buried in it. furnished with a periscope, water res- lodge with all the belonging equipment for milk T.+386 5 3841 000 [email protected] processing. The famous cheese ‘Tolminc’, other dairy part, i.e. a chapel. In the chapel there is ervoir, kitchen, phone station, ammu- [email protected] www.potimirunakrasu.info products and typical cottage-industry products can be the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. nition dump, commander's room and bought in the local shop. www.mlekarna-planika.si toilets.
10. Outdoor tic Ajdovščina 4. Outdoor 18. Upper Vipava valley Cesta IV. Prekomorske 61a, The rich cultural heritage of the Upper museum Mengore The area served as the rear for supplying SI - 5270 Ajdovščina Soča Region is concisely presented in museum Zaprikraj the permanent exhibition of the Tolmin The area is the core of the onetime the Austro-Hungarian troops, therefore it 00386 (0)5 365 91 40 The museum lies within the area of Museum, housed in the Coronini Mansion in Austro-Hungarian defence of the was often the target of shelling. Today, the [email protected] the centre of Tolmin. For millennia, different the Triglav National Park and still Tolmin bridgehead. The circular path remains still survive of strongholds, sol- www.tic-ajdovscina.si cultures, ethnic groups, families and interests active alps. In addition to the insight runs past caves, memorials, remains of diers' positions and cemeteries. One of the have been intertwined in this area. The finds from the archaeological site Vrh gradu on the into the organization of Italian de- stone cabins, water reservoir and the most important vestiges is the line of de- tic Vipava fence the well fortified Italian first Šentviška planota plateau, now exhibited monument in the former military ceme- fence which runs from Predmeja to Otlica, Glavni trg 1, SI - 5271 Vipava in the Museum, evince the presence of line of defence in the Krn range also tery. On the top of Mengore there is the Zagolič, Col, and Sanabor, to the slope of 00386 (0)5 368 70 41 the Roman army. The castle on Kozlov rob offers the pleasures of hiking in tic Idrija was one of the more important castles and church of the Holy Virgin’s Name. Mt. Nanos where the remains of strong- [email protected] unspoiled nature. Vodnikova 3, SI - 5280 Idrija also the administrative and military centre holds, walls and water reservoirs are particu- www.vipavska-dolina.si of the area. The exhibited model gives a larly well visible. 00386 (0)5 374 39 16 clear image of the castle building at the [email protected] beginning of the 17th century; due to its 5. Italian charnel www.idrija-turizem.si strategic position the castle was integrated 19. Military Museum at Vipava in the Austro-Hungarian system of defence house during the Isonzo Front. In the barracks of Vipava a museum has been arranged which presents part of the battle- tic Cerkno It is constructed around the church of field of the first frontline, a dressing station for the heavy wounded, universal workshop, Močnikova 2, SI - 5282 Cerkno St. Anthony on the hill above Kobarid. working-dwelling room of battalion commander, shelter, cave and connecting tunnel 00386 (0)5 373 46 45 Mortal remains of 7014 known and that runs to the guard post; in one room individual items are exhibited. Tolminski muzej [email protected] Mestni trg 4 unknown Italian soldiers who fell in www.turizem-cerkno.si SI-5220 Tolmin the 1st World War were translocated to Private Museum it from military cemeteries in the sur- 14. Mt. Sabotin – The Park of Peace tic Štanjel Phone:+386 (0) 5 38 11 360 roundings. It was opened in September Collections of the Fax:+386 (0) 5 38 11 361 This mountain above Gorizia was, due to its strategic position above the Soča, an impor- Štanjel 42/c, SI - 6222 Štanjel Castle around 1610, reconstruction attempt. [email protected] 1938 by Benito Mussolini. Similar char- st Drawing: Igor Sapač
i World War tant Austro-Hungarian bridgehead on the right bank of the river. In the 6th 00386 (0)5 769 00 56 www.tol-muzej.si of Tolmin. Rebels Monument to Peasant Sculptor: Stojan Batič nel houses are also in Oslavia/Oslavje Isonzo Battle in August 1916 the Italian Army conquered Mt. Sabotin, which made the [email protected] and Redipuglia/Sredipolje. Throughout where the Isonzo Front ran there are collectors who have for many conquest of Gorizia possible. The mountain is crisscrossed with a system of trenches and www.kras-carso.com years collected its remains and arranged caves which were built by both the Austro-Hungarian and the Italian armies when they them in their homes into fine and sub- fortified their positions. Its position makes Mt. Sabotin a place of splendid views, also stantial museum collections. In addition suitable for the cyclists. The view reaches to Mt. Sveta Gora, Mt. Škabrijel, the Vipava 6. Transborder outdoor museum Kolovrat to interesting items they also collected valley, the Kras, the Friuli lowland, the Goriška Brda area and the Julian Alps. Because It consists of a part of the Italian third line of defence. Here are located commanders’ stories of oral tradition and they recount of its turbulent history and natural attractions it is an important tourist destination in Come and join and observation posts, machine-gun and gun positions, caves and a net of trenches. them with great zeal and a lot Goriška region. From the ridge of Mt. Kolovrat an exceptionally magnificent view opens over the Soča of knowledge. me in a guided Information valley, Friuli and all to the Adriatic Sea, the nearby mountains and on the entire battle- Cerkljanski muzej, Bevkova 12,SI 5282 Cerkno field of the Isonzo Front, as if projected on a video-wall. tel. + 386 5 37 23 180, fax. + 386 5 37 23 181 tour! e-mail: [email protected], ist World War http://www.muzej-idrija-cerkno.si Cemeteries They are the last resting place of a mul- 1st April to 30. September: daily from 9.00 to 18.00 h titude of soldiers of diverse nations who 1st October to 31 October: daily from 9.00 to 16.00 h fought and lost their lives in the battles 1st November to 31 March: for booked groups, along the Soča which lasted for twenty- subject to favourable weather conditions nine months. Their tombs in numerous Informacijski center cemeteries scattered from the source to »Pot miru« The Franja Partisan Hospital is a place of remembrance that conveys an important message and symbolic the mouth of the Soča are a constant re- 20. Monument in the Cemetery of the ist Gregorčičeva ul. 8, SI - 5222 Kobarid meaning, a symbol of humanity and comradeship. It operated in the narrow Pasica gorge in the village of minder of and also a warning that some- 00386 (0)5 389 01 67 Dolenji Novaki near Cerkno from December 1943 until May 1945. The hospital was named after a partisan thing like that must never physician, Dr. Franja Bojc Bidovec, who became its administrator soon after its establishment. 578 wounded World War at Črniče [email protected] persons of various nationalities were treated here. The Franja Partisan Hospital is a cultural monument of happen again. Buried in the cemetery are more than 450 soldiers of different nations, who mainly fell www.potmiru.si national importance, and is entered in UNESCO's Tentative List of World Heritage, and bears the European- Heritage Label. Following a disastrous flood in September 2007, the monument has been restored in its - on the front which raged 15 km west of Črniče. entirety, and was reopened to visitors in May 2010.