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Signs (crosses and chapels) on hiking trails

velkavrh17. 10. 2019 08:28:47

Trip through Drava Valley and Haloze Hills with visit to Dominican nuns' monastery in Studenice with wonderful monastic church, which is still today the parish church of Studenice. As is known, the successor of Austro-Hungarian empress after Maria Theresa abolished monasteries in his empire and many male and female orders never recovered, because monks and nuns had to leave monasteries and mostly left the empire. Many monasteries changed purpose, many were abandoned and the tooth of time took them. Dominicans as female order weakened especially. In Europe only three of their monasteries. In Slovenia none anymore. The monastery in Studenice was totally devastated - equipment destroyed or looted. Monastery now renovating. Currently only exterior renovated. Church in the monastery survived and is unique cultural monument of special importance. Church has eleven altars, gallery with old organs and special prayer room next to gallery with altar for nuns, completely preserved. Next to monastery on left side on hillock notice ruins of castle in Studenice. Monastery farm next to monastery in ruins. For guided tour of monastic complex with visit to wonderful church need to book specially.

On the hill above Makole is the church of St. Lenart.

In the monastery complex is the church of the Holy Three Kings.

Interior of the monastery - only the exterior has been renovated.

At the entrance is a memorial room of the last nun of this monastery, who lived here.

Mummy of the martyr - relic that the church received as a gift centuries ago.

There are ten altars in the church. Eight are side altars. I failed to photograph three side altars. One is on the choir loft.

Statue of the foundress of the monastery.

The Way of the Cross is around the choir.

This monument is right in the church, something I have not seen in Slovenia so far.

Altar on the choir loft in the nuns' oratory.

atoamac18. 10. 2019 10:08:42

from older archives

St. Michael in the wall of Bracota (Carnic Alps)

Two peaks (Naborje mountains, Julian Alps)

From the tour Krvavec - Zvoh - Vrh Korena

atoamac18. 10. 2019 12:53:07

correction: no. 11 is Mallnitzscharte, below Sauleck.

velkavrh22. 10. 2019 13:52:22

From the Ormoška mountain path.

atoamac24. 10. 2019 13:38:24

Between Tolazzi and Marinelli huts below the highest peak of Carnic Alps, Coglians/Hohe Warte.

velkavrh25. 10. 2019 16:22:07

From the path "From bench to bench".

Cross in the village Voduce, where our hike Od klopce na klopco began.

Mini chapel at the mini arboretum of Franz Joseph in the hamlet Col.

Another cross in the village of Paridol.

velkavrh26. 10. 2019 09:09:18

From a walk through Begunje village.

velkavrh27. 10. 2019 11:26:50

From a walk through Predoslje village during retirees' tour to Brdo estate, which belongs to Predoslje village.

At the entrance to the village from the direction of Brda, the largest chapel in Predoslje greets us on the left side.

The village church is dedicated to the medieval Pope Sixtus. I found out that it is dedicated to Pope Sixtus II. He was Greek by birth. He was proclaimed a martyr.

This is the fresco of Pope Sixtus on the chapel. There were five popes with this name. Sixtus II was pope for only one year - 257.

Fresco on the chapel from the other side of the chapel.

At the main entrance to the village, if we continue on this road, another smaller chapel awaits us on the left side.

The chapel's painting is very interesting.

In the middle of this main road at the intersection, an old plague monument awaits us in the center, which was thoroughly renovated about a year ago.

On all four sides of this monument there are paintings.

Pope Sixtus was also the protector of the village.

In the village we will encounter several crosses - precisely six. One is missing from these four public crosses.

We encounter this one already at the intersection of three villages before the bridge over the Kokra River.

This one however is at the mighty linden from the direction of Suha village.

It actually stands before the sign indicating the village of Predoslje.

In the village near the Šmajd farm there are two private crosses. This is one of them.

This is the village church in Predoslje dedicated to Pope Sixtus. It is not exactly known how it came to this dedication.

This is the second private Šmajdov cross.

I had the opportunity to view the interior of the church in Predoslje - this is the main altar.

atoamac28. 10. 2019 14:25:52

From a tour through Vipava hills

atoamac28. 10. 2019 14:57:36

From a tour to Veliki Karman

atoamac29. 10. 2019 16:29:50

From the slopes of Navrše peak, above Hublje spring

jaz30. 10. 2019 03:15:06

From Aragata, 4090 m, the highest peak of Armenia. Lp!

atoamac30. 10. 2019 13:35:32

on Dolomite passes

Sass del Stria and chapel at Passo Falzarego

atoamac30. 10. 2019 13:54:31

On Rjavci

piotr4. 11. 2019 14:46:26

Yesterday, on Brinjeva gora.

250 years of the Church of the Mother of God

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velkavrh8. 11. 2019 13:58:55

From the hike to Planina nad Vrhniko.

Also still in the village Rovte on the hayrack.

Church of St. Nicholas on Kuren-Stara Vrhnika.

Church interior through the barred window.

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tulipan9. 11. 2019 16:48:33

Branko, no NOB monument?

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velkavrh10. 11. 2019 12:04:03

No, this time I didn't see any. Otherwise, I regularly photograph them.

Zvonček12. 11. 2019 17:41:49

Golek Peak on Banjšica. Regards

velkavrh13. 11. 2019 10:12:10

I'm posting a quite extensive photo report on the topic of crosses, chapels and churches. I photographed all this on the partially walked Župančičeva pešpot from the village Beljči vrh to Vinica. This time I managed to find out to whom the churches are dedicated and for the first time I thoroughly paid attention to the stations of the Way of the Cross. The chapels are renovated - but the stations are not yet numbered. There are wonderful frescoes in the chapels. Unfortunately I managed to photograph the interior of the Way of the Cross chapels with wonderful paintings only from the eighth station to the first station. It seems that these are still old paintings. Both chapels at the beginning of the Way of the Cross are still being renovated and I don't know exactly to whom each is dedicated.