| jerque25. 02. 2024 22:09:13 |
Today I again did a military history tour from the Roman fort at Lanišče to the Italian alpine wall barracks Casermetta De Cesaris. In a straight line they are quite close, but if you don't want to walk along the main road, at least according to the available maps you need to go around past this viewpoint under Srnjak  . Since in the afternoon I had some other things and afternoon rain was forecasted as possible, I did something outright blasphemous to my philosophical principles. Instead of starting somewhere in the valley, e.g. in Logatec, I drove right to Lanišče and parked directly near the Roman fort, which is marked on the main road, next to it there is some space. Before the fort itself there are two info boards, if someone doesn't understand Slovenian, on the other side there is also an English translation.
From the fort then, as already said, towards the viewpoint and that along the marked path, which actually from Logatec leads past Novi Svet, Lanišče, viewpoint to Grčarevec, along the northern edge of Planinsko polje and then returns to Logatec. The path goes along the road a bit below the viewpoint, to the viewpoint itself we must branch off the road earlier on a separate marked path or turn just below it. Anyway, by the amount of benches one could conclude that it is a quite popular goal. Its own contribution was added by some Italian-owned insurance company with its "love bench", which was wrapped in green polyvinyl. As it seems, these benches are already getting a similar role as those infamous yellow-blue "ATMs", which somehow indicate that the place is touristically "smoothed out" and that it is worth considering avoidance. Well, let's leave those benches; from the "eagle's nest" potential views open to the east. I promised myself especially from Planinsko polje, because I was curious if it was flooded, but just above it there was low cloudiness. There is also a stamp with a logbook. I myself have never seen the real sense in this except for search examples in the high mountains, but if they politely asked for an entry, I obliged them. A little below the scenic platform I noticed another niche with some Italian names. Subsequent analysis showed that the Italians in post-WW1 border negotiations managed to push the "divorce line" (i.e. the border) quite far towards Planinsko polje, almost to the road from Kalce to Planina, so this viewpoint was already quite deep in "their" territory and logically they too wanted to observe from the vantage point what the "outer enemy" was doing down there.
On the path to the "casermetta", the maPZS was very useful, as it includes the dashed non-PZS path to there. In any case, we return along the direct marked path to the viewpoint, but before reaching the forest road, we turn left onto an initially poorly trodden pathlet, which improves somewhat over time. It seems that this path is marked with fluorescent dots and lines on rocks or trees, sometimes also with circles in two shades of green. Eventually we find ourselves on a quite nice forest road, which however just bypasses the barracks, so a little before arriving at the main asphalt road we must turn left onto a pathlet that brings us straight to Casermetta (in Italian small barracks) E. De Cesaris (Italians liked to name Alpine Wall objects after "national heroes" who fell during the Soča front offensives, and probably the same here). It made a much bigger impression on me than the Roman fort, probably also because it is much larger and at least on the outside still appears quite preserved. Access to the courtyard and thus to the interiors of the objects is not possible because it is locked, but it is possible to take photos through the bars, the gun slits of two corner bunkers and also through the windows on the eastern side. Someone more skillful might easily climb through the mentioned ungrated windows into the interior, but I am not that skillful, and also questionable if it is not still a military object. On the courtyard there is in fact some board, which can be "read" only with a zoomed photo, and it says that this object was used by TO as an ammunition storage during the independence war. If the barracks were reached from the other side, i.e. directly from the nearby main road, the first impression would be even more magnificent and reminiscent of some chateau, as the path leads like through some park past two slightly raised platforms. I didn't manage to find out if it is a water reservoir or something else. The nearest access from the main road is next to the triangular chapel, but the forest road is barricaded with a chain and there is no other way than to step over it; when the forest road soon turns to the right, we take the branch left and are soon at the barracks. Unfortunately, there is really no sign anywhere to this undoubtedly interesting point, as if it were still the strictest "segretissima", and if we don't know about it...
The weather obviously decided not to give much to the slogging of UI algorithms and to speed up a bit. The possibility of precipitation was forecasted only for the afternoon, but already on the way to this barracks (around 9am) it started to drizzle lightly and just during the inspection of the barracks it poured properly. Good thing the car was quite close. Therefore I took the road to there and didn't bother searching for possible parallel paths. To the Roman fort by road it should be only 500m, which dragged on. On the way there follows an unmarked branch of the aforementioned forest road that bypasses the barracks, a marked branch to the viewpoint, then finally the fort. Before it, by the road, I noticed the roof of another former military object, but with clear signs of habitation and a very unambiguous warning about private property, so... Since in this now already downpour there is really nothing sensible to do up there, I drove towards Logatec. Once when time also allows better, I will need to view in Podkraj, Hrušica... more remains of both ancient and more modern "Romans"...
Now a bit off-topic. To Gornji Logatec (part at the access from Kalce) the rain had meanwhile eased somewhat. Since I knew from some "intelligence" sources, I headed there towards the church of Sv. Križ on the hill above the main square (Tabor). Because behind the church another bunker is dug in, so far I haven't managed to find out if it belongs to the Rupnik line or some other story.
But I still had just enough time and ideal conditions for a jump to the ind. zone Zapolje north of Logatec, to which from the town center one gets only via the linden tree avenue, where there are not even sidewalks (so even Logatec residents can't go to work there in a sustainable way), somewhere by the road it was possible to park and with rare traffic along its edge first reach a small memorial park in honor of the independence battle at Cesarski Vrh. Even more interesting was another roadside bunker of the Rupnik line between that park and the Mercator Embe plant. When there are no leaves, the outlines of this bunker can even somehow be noticed in the bushes and one can even push through to it or its above-ground part. Because the underground part is supposed to be even more extensive, but unreachable despite the fact that entry into the bunker is possible (need to duck at entry), there is a hole to the underground part, but no stairs, ladder, pegs or anything similar was noticed.
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