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Prehistory

The Mount of Giants: The Prehistoric “Tomb” in Gorenje (Obrern)

The growing number of archaeological finds provide evidence of the first traces of human settlement in Kočevska (Gottschee) region. These include the barrow with the dead person’s ash at Gorenje (Obrern) by Stara Cerkev, the so-called giant’s mound or in German Hünenbüchel. It was created by the end of the Hallstatt, i.e. the Late Bronze Age or, in other words, between 1000 and 400 B.C. From the first archaeological surveying…

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Environment Prehistory

The Koblarska cave (Koblarska jama) and the Black cave (Črna jama)

You should visit some when it’s raining. Or snowing. That is, if you want to witness the majestic interplay of water seeping through the floor and falling to the basin, from which it splashes in thousand little droplets … Or otherwise you also won’t be able to see a true underground “waterfall”. But that is just one scenic view.  With most of the others, the weather does not play an…

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