Nature

The Zaloški bajer Pond was once an old riverbed of the Vipava River at Zalošče in the Vipava Valley. Because people made changes to the Vipava River and the Vipava Valley, such ponds are the only remaining sanctuaries for many types of plants and animals that were once found in the valley.
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Park Rafut was planted in the second half of the 19th century over an area of 3 hectares. Within the park, there are a number of rare trees and shrubs. Due to the favourable soil and climatic conditions, many exceptionally beautiful exotic plants have been able to grow in this park. Many of these...
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The Big Ice Cave at Paradana is known worldwide due to the classical description (locus classicus) of the inversion of the vegetation belts in its western part. The cave is 385 m deep and 1550 m long.
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The Trnovo Forest and the neighbouring Banjščice plateau are the most north-western spur of the grand Dinar mountains. The mountainous area of the Trnovo Forest is karst-like, with no running superficial water, full of closed hollows, hills of different height and mountains, caves, abysses,...
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At the steep edge of the Trnovo Forest overlooking the Lijak stream a penetrated cliff has given shape to the Natural Bridge Skozno. The same name was given also to the underneath short grotto “spodmol”.
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Lijak is a strong but irregular karstic spring of the stream of the same name flowing from below the precipitous edge of the Trnovo Forest.
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The Soča River rises in the heart of the Julian Alps. Its 138 km long route to the sea runs for the most part along the northwest edge of Slovenia.
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The Sabotin Hill (608m) lies at the junction of Pre-Alpine, Sub-Mediterranean areas and the Dinaric Alps. To the south it overlooks Nova Gorica, to the west it looks to the Brda region, to the east there is Sveta Gora and the Trnovo and Banjščice Plateau, and to the north there are the Julian...
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In May 2004, in the former garden of the monastery, at the southern fasade of the Kostanjevica monastery near Nova Gorica, there was opened for the public a collection of Bourbon roses. It is one of the biggest and most complete collections of Bourbon roses in the world. In May and June there are...
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Nova Gorica is one of the rare cities in Slovenia which can boast of having such a large, preserved and interesting forest with numerous domestic and foreign tree species in the direct vicinity of the town.
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