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Navje Traditional Geocache

Hidden : 1/1/2014
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

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Staro Ljubljansko pokopališče

Navje (prej Pokopališče sv. Krištofa) je ljubljanski spominski park, ki sta ga leta 1936 uredila arhitekta Jože Plečnik in Ivo Spinčič. Od 18. stoletja pa do leta 1936 je bilo na tem mestu in na območju današnjega Gospodarskega razstavišča pokopališče, ki so ga mestne oblasti preselile na lokacijo današnjih Žal. V park Navje so bili prenešeni posmrtni ostanki oziroma nagrobniki slavnih Slovencev (med drugim Anton Aškerc, Janez Bleiweiss, Matija Čop, Josip Jurčič, Jernej Kopitar, Fran Levstik, Anton Tomaž Linhart, Josip Stritar, Valentin Vodnik).

Park ima obliko podolgovatega pravokotnika, v njem je arkadna veža, t.i. »Slovenski panteon«, zasnovan v klasicističnem slogu, ki je bil zgrajen že sredi 19. stoletja na vzhodnem robu starega pokopališča. Nagrobniki so razvrščeni pod tem ostreškom in po trati. Na koncu parka stojijo štirje Plečnikovi stebri, ki so prej stali pred stavbo Glasbene matice. Od leta 2001 je Navje zavarovano kot kulturni spomenik državnega pomena.

In the 1930s, a small portion of the old St. Christopher's Cemetery, including the arcade porch that was built around 1865, was transformed in a "pantheon" of famous Slovenes. The memorial park was designed by the architects Jože Plečnik and Ivo Spinčič in collaboration with the gardener Anton Lah. Already in 1932, Plečnik had proposed building a monumental church on the same site, which would include a crypt with tombs of prominent Slovenes. The project, planned together with his student Edvard Ravnikar, was however rejected, and so Plečnik proposed the creation of Navje Memorial Park. Between 1936 and 1940 several gravestones and tombstones of notable personalities were moved into the park, but because of the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941 the project was never completed. Many of the gravestones planned to be moved into Navje Memorial Park, such as those of Prešeren, Trubar, Maister, and Rusjan, were not brought in, and many graves of unimportant individuals, planned to be moved to Žale, have remained in the park. Plečnik's plans to enlarge the park were never carried out. After World War II, the park was largely neglected and renovation took place only in the 1990s.

vir: wiki

Škatlica se nahaja v notranjosti parka.

Park je odprt vsak dan od 8. do 20. ure pozimi oz. od 7. do 22. ure poleti.

New box is in the park.

Park is open from 8.00 to 20.00 in winter and from 7.00 to 22.00 in summer.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Zngrw Fyrxbirp; cbq xnzabz / haqre gur ebpx

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)