Blending industrial innovation with historical preservation, the Doblar hydro power plant on the Soča has unveiled a museum dedicated to the technical heritage of hydropower. The new museum invites the public to explore the fascinating story behind one of Slovenia's oldest energy facilities.
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Slovenia's first tactile gallery has opened in Nova Gorica municipality, offering blind and sighted visitors alike a fresh, hands-on encounter with iconic artworks spanning centuries.
The Tactile Gallery, located in a shopping centre in Kromberk and run by the regional Goriška Museum, features work

The UNESCO world heritage site of Aquileia in northeastern in Italy and the pilgrimage site of Sveta Gora in western Slovenia have been linked with a new 82-kilometre-long trail called the Goriška Camino or Iter Goritiense.
Designed as Nova Gorica and Gorizia came together for the first cross-borde

The humanitarian foundation of Goran Dragić, one of the greatest Slovenian basketball players of all time, will build a basketball court in Nova Gorica on the border with Italy.
The two half-courts will symbolically connect the two countries and are expected to open in June as part of the European

Two cities that used to be split by a hard border have become united in a celebration of shared culture as Nova Gorica in Slovenia and neighbouring Gorizia in Italy officially kicked off a year of events as the first ever transnational European Capital of Culture.
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Visitors to Nova Gorica will be able to try out their smuggling skills on a guided tour of a once tight Slovenian-Italian border in a new tourism product inspired by the European Capital of Culture.
The two-hour Smuggling Tour will run from Europe Square to the Smuggling Museum in Pristava, crossin

A huge ball of newspapers containing articles on seminal events affecting the border region will roll from Italy's Gorizia to Nova Gorica in Slovenia as part of the opening ceremony of the European Capital of Culture on 8 February in a recreation of a 1966 performance by Italian artist Michelangelo

One of the main projects of the Nova Gorica-Gorizia European Capital of Culture will be a permanent exhibition on the complexities of 20th-century history. Displayed in a former warehouse next to the Nova Gorica railway station, it will shed light on the area's multiculturalism and troubled past.
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The first cross-border European Capital of Culture will get under way on 8 February with a 14-hour programme in five locations in Nova Gorica and Gorizia featuring more than 2,000 performers. Senior guests, including the presidents of Slovenia and Italy, are expected to attend.
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