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Altitude: 800 m
Location: Ljubljana 84 km; Austrian border 6 km;
Italian border 6,5 km
In the city: stores, restaurants, pizzerias, bars,
bank, post office, night club casino
Sport: night skiing, coasting path, natural skating
ring (lake Jasna); ski school and snowboarding school; pool
complex, saunas; tennis hall.
The Zgornjesavska
Valley is one of the most breathtaking alpine valleys whose center
of activity is the resort town of Kranjska Gora. The valley has
developed into a major tourist and sports region, famed primarily
for its World Cup competitions in alpine skiing and ski flights on
the giant ski-jump in Planica. But it still has much, much more to
offer. With its broad variety of tourist services, this alluring
valley attracts visitors all year round.
Places and
valleys:
The valley, situated between the Karavanke Mountains and the Julian
Alps, is renowned for the hospitality and friendliness of the local
people. Accommodation is readily available in Kranjska Gora, the
sports and tourist centre of the valley, while the idyllic villages
are a heaven for all those who want to relax and enjoy the fresh
mountain air within the closest vicinity of this buzzing tourist
resort.
The Zgornjesavska valley
Kranjska Gora
Ratece - Planica
Podkoren
Gozd Martuljek
Srednji Vrh above Gozd Martuljek
Dovje - Mojstrana
Kranjska Gora:
Kranjska Gora is both the municipal centre and the largest town in
the Zgornjesavska valley as well as a famous year-round mountain
tourist resort and an important, well-known winter sports resort.
A new, tourist resort
with hotels, bed & breakfast accommodation, apartments and holiday
homes; as well as sport facilities and a shopping centre has
grown-up around the centre of the town.
For all those who are
looking for a peaceful and relaxing holiday and wish to enjoy
genuine and friendly contact with the locals, we recommend a stay in
one of the idyllic villages in the near vicinity.
History:
Kranjska Gora was first mentioned by the Slovenian historian
Valvasor. According to word of mouth, Kranjska Gora was first called
Borovska vas; perhaps because its inhabitants came from Borovlje or
perhaps because they cut down dwarf pine (borovje) to make room for
their settlement.
In those early times
when Kranjska Gora was still under development, the Gornjesavska
valley was owned by the counts of Briksen and Ortenburg; later, the
land was inherited by the Counts of Celje. In 1431, Count Friderik
II built the Bela pec castle here.
In the times of
Turkish raids, the first house had been built at Srednji vrh where
beacons were lit to alert the surrounding villages that the Turks
were approaching. To the present day, the house is still known as "pri
Merkeljnu", which is derived from the verb to look out.
In the 19th century
Kranjska Gora was the centre of vivacious trading activity and the
town was granted trading rights on 2nd August 1848. On 14th December
1870, the Ljubljana–Ratece–Tarvisio railway line was opened.
Between the two World
Wars, the railway contributed to the development of tourism and
mountaineering, while after the end of these crises the railway had
a great effect on the lively blossoming of the valley’s economy. |
