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Kranj is a wonderful town, situated near the confluence of rivers Sava and Kokra.
We are inviting you to a short walk through our town.
SLOVENIAN SQUARE (Square of the Revolution till 1991), surrounded by: |
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Grammar school (1896/1897 constructed by plan of Wilhelm Treo in style of the second Half of the 19th century)
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- Statues made by Lojze Dolinar: Strike, Rebellion, Fight, Victory Grammar school (1896/1897 constructed by plan of Wilhelm Treo in style of the second Half of the 19th century)
- Villa of Dr. A. Bezek, work of the architect Joze Plecnik
- the building of Kranj community
- a building of the Agency for Payments
- a Creina hotel from 1970 (before that there was a Capuchin convent)
- department store Globus |
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MITNICA Tavcar Street lies above the river Kokra and it is all overbuilt with medieval houses. The Post Street connects the Main Square with a bridge over Kokra and settlement Planina. Opposite of the post building lies the oldest house in Kranj- mitnica from 1527, in gothic renaissance style with a rich front.
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Janez Bleiweis House
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MAISTER Square
In the middle Ages in Kranj between Merkur and Mladinska knjiga there were door with the bridge and a ditch. They were made in the 14 th century to discharge the central market place. The square has an irregular shape and it has been reconstructed till today.
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Khiselstein
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PRESEREN Street is the most extended medieval street in Kranj. On that street there is a house, where Dr. France Pr P eseren lived and worked before he died, from 1847 till 1949. On the ground floor there is a gallery and on the first floor they are saving his poetic legacy. On the house you can see a memorial plaque, dedicated to our greatest poet.
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Rosary church |
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THE MAIN SQUARE ( in the past called Square of Tito) is the oldest square in town (the buyer could only buy a 6 meter wide belt, which included a house, a stable, a farm building and a garden), the wooden houses have burnt down. Later, when the new houses were built, they turned all the roofs towards the south.
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A TOWN HALL has a restored renaissance frontage. In a hall there is a duplicates collection of medieval frescoes. In the Town hall there is a museum of Upper Carniola : a work of Lojze Dolinar, archaeological, historical, ethnographic, artistic and cultural historical collection. On the Town halls yard today there is Kranj market.
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TRUBAR SQUARE
Through the Cankarjeva Street we arrive to Trubar square . It lies on a Pungart (baumgarten= fruit garden). On that square a music school is situated
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PUNGART |
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A PARISH CHURCH is dedicated to St. Kancijan. An altar was formed by Ivan Vurnik; painted windows are the work of Stane Kragar. The southerner wall has two Roman tombstones built in. They were brought from Pivka near Naklo and from Lesce. The other two tombstones are medieval and they mention a priest Koloman. |
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CANKAR AND VODOPIVEC STREET
At the contact ob both streets an unfinished staircase of Plecnik lies and it is decorated with a well with a cock on it. Arcades close the look to the Rosary church. At the beginning of the Vodopivec Street a city door used to stand.
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