Portfolio – Page 3 – Isonzo Battlefields Travel

08Sep 2017 by Jauko

Mount Hermada

Mt. Hermada The open-air Museum of Mt. Ermada offers a chance to discover the Austro-Hungarian defensive line fortified in September 1916 following the Sixth Battle of the Isonzo. The Italian victory had forced the Habsburg Imperial Army to abandon the high ground around Monfalcone and move to this area around the Karst surrounding Trieste. The choice of settling at Mt. Ermada and the surrounding hilltops was not random, but rather driven by strategic and practical reasons. From here, in fact, you could control both the Valley of Brestovizza (Brestovica Dol, now part of Slovenia) and the passage to Trieste, the Habsburg town claimed by the Italians. The sinkholes, the passages between the rocks and the natural caves of the Karst Plateau perfectly adapted to the needs of the Great…

08Sep 2017 by Jauko

Kobarid Historical Trail

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Kobarid Historical Trail The trail connects placesThe Kobarid historical trail (arhiv www.dolina-soce.com) around Kobarid where important historical, cultural and natural monuments can be seen. The trail is 5 km long, and the tour takes three to five hours. KOBARID, one of the most renowned historical places in Slovenia, was already inhabited in the Hallstat period and prospered in the Roman period. The town is mainly known for the aftermath of the Battle of Kobarid in October 1917, which placed Kobarid on the world map. During the Second World War, Kobarid was the centre of the liberated territory, called the Kobarid Republic. Nearby is an important late Antiquity mountain settlement called Tonocov Grad. The Kobarid Museum presents the story of these historical events and in 1993 it received the Council…

07Sep 2017 by Jauko

Solkan Bridge

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Solkan Bridge The Solkan Bridge (Slovene: Solkanski most, Italian: Ponte di Salcano) is a 219.7-metre (721 ft) arch bridge over the Soča River near Nova Gorica in western Slovenia (by railway terminology it is a viaduct). With an arch span of 85 metres (279 ft), it is the longest stone bridge among train bridges built of stone blocks. It holds the record as later construction technology used reinforced concrete to build bridges. It was originally built in the time of the Secession, between 1900 and 1905, and officially opened in 1906. The bridge was designed by the architect Rudolf Jaussner and engineer Leopold Örley, initially with an 80 m stone arch. The bridge was built by the Viennese construction company Brüder Redlich und Berger between 1904 and 1905. In…

07Sep 2017 by Jauko

Mount Sei Busi / Dolina dei 500

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Mt. Sei Busi Fortified Line of Mt. Sei Busi Linea Fortificata del Monte Sei Busi Around the hilltop of Mt. Sei Busi, visitors can observe a section of the so-called "Large Italian trench", a massive fortified defensive line that used to run from Mt. San Michele to the area of Selz, Doberdò del Lago and Monfalcone. Its construction was ordered by Luigi Cadorna, who intended to block counter-attacks of the Austro-Hungarian army. After some early excavations, the Trench was reinforced with pre-stressed concrete between autumn 1916 and spring 1917. However, it proved useless during the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo: the Third Army rapidly abandoned it indeed, following the offensive of the Austro-Hungarians on the Upper Isonzo and their incursion into the Natisone Valleys, in order to avoid encirclement.…

07Sep 2017 by Jauko

Sveta Gora / Holy Mountain

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Sveta Gora Sveta Gora ; Italian: Monte Santo di Gorizia) is a settlement in western Slovenia in the Municipality of Nova Gorica. It encompasses Holy Mount (Slovene: Sveta gora), above the Soča Valley and southwest of the Banjšice Plateau. History In May 1917 Sveta Gora was the scene of heavy fighting between Austrian and Italian forces. Sveta Gora became an independent settlement in 2006, when its territory was administratively separated from the territory of Solkan and Grgar.

07Sep 2017 by Jauko

Austro-Hungarian military cemetery WW1, Gorjansko

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Gorjansko WW1 Cemetery The Austro-Hungarian cemetery from World War I is situated next to the village cemetery in Gorjansko by the regional road which leads to Klanec and Brestovica. At the military cemetery are buried soldiers of Austro-Hungarian army of various nationalities, who fell in the years 1915-1917 on the Isonzo front. This is the largest cemetery of the Austro-Hungarian army for soldiers lost in the Isonzo Front. As far as 10,000 soldiers of different nationalities are buried here. The cemetery has kept its original design, which blends in with the Karst landscape. March 2022 [gallery type="rectangular" size="full" ids="2696,2697,2698,2699,2700,2701,2703,2702,2704,2705,2706,2707,2708,2711,2709,2712,2710,2713,2714,2715"] February 2018 [gallery link="file" size="full" type="rectangular" ids="2481,2479,2478,2480"] February 2013 [gallery type="rectangular" link="file" size="full" ids="2471,2472,2473,2465,2466,2464,2467,2468,2469,2470,2474,2475,2476,2477"]

07Sep 2017 by Jauko

Cerje Memorial Monument

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Cerje Monument to the defenders of the Slovenian standing on a top Cerje on the western edge of the karst plateau, which opens a wide view of the northern Adriatic Sea, Friuli, Dolomite, Julian Alps, Vipavsko Valley. The initiative for setting up this monumental memorial for all those who have fought in this area and fell, resulting in a patriotic organization TIGR. Location and content design memorials are carefully thought out. Monument to sedemetažni is designed as a tower or fort that connects the past with the future with its content. In seven floors, the visitor can walk through different periods in Slovenian history, landmark times - from prehistory to periods of world wars, the war for independence from Slovenia to the last floor with a panoramic platform, which…

07Sep 2017 by Jauko

Kobarid Museum

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The Kobarid Museum The Kobarid Museum developed from a museum collection which was set up by the locals with professional assistance of Goriški muzej in 1990. It first operated within the frame of the Tourist Society of Kobarid. Five years later, in agreement with the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the founders transferred the management to a non-profit company of limited liability which still manages the Museum. In the year 2011, the Kobarid Museum was put in the official register of Slovenian museums. It was awarded for its activities the highest Slovenian award in the museum sphere – the Valvasor Prize. It was nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA) and was awarded the Council of Europe Museum Prize. Many notable persons have…

07Sep 2017 by Jauko

Javorca, Memorial Church of the Holy Spirit

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Javorca, Memorial Church of the Holy Spirit High above the stream of the Tolminka rises a wooden shrine – the Memorial Church in Javorca. The Memorial Church of the Holy Spirit in Javorca is dedicated to fallen Austro-Hungarian defenders of the Tolmin battlefield on the Soča (Isonzo) Front (1915–1917). As the finest monument to the First World War in the territory of Slovenia, in 2007 the church was classed as a historical monument bearing the European Cultural Heritage sign. It is also one of the stations along the historical Path of Peace trail, which links together monuments and remains from the First World War in the upper Soča region. Over the entrance door the inscription reads: This monument was built during the war by members of the 3rd Mountain…

06Sep 2017 by Jauko

Sabotin

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Sabotin This mountain above Gorizia was, due to its strategic position above the Soča, an important Austro-Hungarian bridgehead on the right bank of the river. In the 6th Isonzo Battle in August 1916 the Italian Army conquered Mt. Sabotin, which made the conquest of Gorizia possible. The mountain is crisscrossed with a system of trenches and caves which were built by both the Austro-Hungarian and the Italian armies when they fortified their positions. Its position makes Mt. Sabotin a place of splendid views, also suitable for the cyclists. The view reaches to Mt. Sveta Gora, Mt. Škabrijel, the Vipava valley, the Kras, the Friuli lowland, the Goriška Brda area and the Julian Alps. Because of its turbulent history and natural attractions it is an important tourist destination in Goriška…