Nova Gorica in Slovenia

4 January 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, European Union, European Capital of Culture Reading Time:  6 minutes

Franciscan Monastery of Kostanjevica © Julien Maury

Franciscan Monastery of Kostanjevica © Julien Maury

Nova Gorica is a town in western Slovenia, on the border with Italy. It is the seat of the Municipality of Nova Gorica. Nova Gorica is a planned town, built according to the principles of modernist architecture after 1947, when the Paris Peace Treaty established a new border between Yugoslavia and Italy, leaving nearby Gorizia outside the borders of Yugoslavia and thus cutting off the Soča Valley, the Vipava Valley, the Gorizia Hills and the northwestern Karst Plateau from their traditional regional urban centre. Since 1948, Nova Gorica has replaced Gorizia as the principal urban center of the Gorizia region (Slovene: Goriška), as the northern part of the Slovenian Littoral has been traditionally called.   read more…

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