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Showing posts with label SLOVENIA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SLOVENIA. Show all posts
March 13, 2020

3459 SLOVENIA (Slovene Littoral) - The Piran salt pans

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3459 A salt-pan family in a traditional house in Piran during salt harvesting in summer. Piran , considered by some the most beautif...
February 26, 2020

3438 SLOVENIA (Slovene Littoral) - Village market in Padna

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The Istrian hinterland has always been very important to supply fresh and high quality food for all coastal towns. The small villa...
February 15, 2020

3426 SLOVENIA (Slovene Littoral) - They were known as Šavrinke

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Slovenian Istria is known for its spectacularly beautiful landscape - a countryside characterized by harsh, rocky terrain. The poor so...
February 4, 2020

3418 SLOVENIA (Slovene Littoral) - Persimmons harvesting in Strunjan

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Strunjan is a coastal town in the Municipality of Piran , situated between Piran and Izola , in the valley of the river Roja, along t...
February 2, 2020

3414 SLOVENIA (Slovene Littoral) - Harvesting the smoke bush leaves in Piran

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The European smoketree ( Cotinus coggygria ), also known as smoke bush, Venetian sumach, or dyer's sumach is a species of flowerin...
January 30, 2020

3406 SLOVENIA (Slovene Littoral) - Preparations for Easter in Piran

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The Palm Sunday is a christian feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter, and commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem...
January 28, 2020

3401 SLOVENIA (Slovene Littoral) - The repairing of the wooden boats in the škver of Seča

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  In Seča (former Sveti Jernej - the Slovene name of Saint Bartholomew), a settlement not far from Piran ,  at the end of Jernej...
January 26, 2020

3395 SLOVENIA (Slovene Littoral) - The preparation of healing plants in Piran

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The use of herbal medicine is widespread in Slovenia, and on visits to rural areas you’ll often encounter drying rooms or tables covere...
January 24, 2020

3386 SLOVENIA (Slovene Littoral) - The weaving of traditional Istrian baskets in Piran

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Basket weaving is one of the widest spread crafts in the history of any human civilization. It is hard to say just how old the craft is...
January 19, 2020

3330, 3349, 3373 SLOVENIA (Slovene Littoral) - The olive harvesting and manufacture of extra virgin olive oil in Piran

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3330 The olive harvesting (1) Posted on 03.01.2020, 11.01.2020, 19.01.2020 Native to the Mediterranean Basin , the olive tree is one...
January 1, 2020

3321 SLOVENIA (Slovene Littoral) - Morra players in Piran

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Morra is a hand game that dates back thousands of years to ancient Roman and Greek times. Each player simultaneously reveals their h...
November 23, 2017

3190 SLOVENIA (Slovene Littoral) - The town crier in Piran

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In nowadays, the town crier is only heard at ceremonials, fetes and local events, but in medieval Europe have been common on the street...
November 22, 2017

3201 SLOVENIA (Slovene Littoral) - Washing the laundry in Piran

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In the past, women used to wash the laundry in common, those from the country to the river, and those from the town to the wells locate...
November 21, 2017

3195 SLOVENIA (Slovene Littoral) - At the well in Piran

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Almost always human settlements coagulated near a water source, which was sometimes a well. Because the well was one of the few places ...
November 20, 2017

3183, 3186 SLOVENIA (Slovene Littoral) - The fishermen in Piran

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3183 Piran - Fisherman square, next to the town's inner port (mandracchio) Worldwide, for populations that inhabit the coasts of ...
November 19, 2017

2599, 3190, 3195, 3201 SLOVENIA (Slovene Littoral) - Piran

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Located in southwestern Slovenia on the Gulf of Piran on the Adriatic Sea , Piran is one of the three major towns of Slovenian Istr...
May 25, 2017

3066 SLOVENIA (Styria) - Door-to-door rounds of Kurenti (UNESCO ICH)

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Kurentovanje is one of Slovenia's most popular and ethnologically significant carnival events. This 10-day rite of spring and fe...
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March 4, 2017

ALBANIA / AUSTRIA / BELGIUM / BULGARIA / CROATIA / GERMANY / ITALY / ROMANIA / SLOVAKIA / SLOVENIA / SPAIN / UKRAINE - Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe (UNESCO WHS)

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This transboundary property stretches over 12 European countries. Since the end of the last Ice Age, European Beech spread from a few isol...
March 3, 2017

2970 SLOVENIA (Styria) - Church of Our Lady Mother of the Church in Maribor

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Attested in historical sources in circa 1145, Maribor is in nowadays the largest city of the traditional region of Lower Styria , and ...
March 17, 2016

0085, 0506, 2387 SLOVENIA (Ljubljana) - Ljubljana, the city of dragons

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0085 Ljubljana - Images from the city Posted on 28.12.2011, 11.02.2013, 17.03.2016 Situated on the river Ljubljanica , between the ...