Place in Upper Carniola, Slovenia
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Srednja Dobrava is a small village on a plain between Jelovica plateau and the Karavanke range. It is peaceful, yet close to the popular tourist sights. Bled is 15 km away.
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West of the church in the middle of the village, there is a monument to 18 residents who died as Partisans or were shot in retribution by the Germans during the Second World War. Relatives dug up the remains of the fallen partisans with their own hands after the war elsewhere in the battlefields, in August 1945, and transported them by carts to the Dobrava graveyard.
There are two memorial plaques on the Firebrigade building: to the teacher Stane Žagar, who was the central figure of the resistance against the German occupation in 1941, and to 23 families deported to forced labour camps to Germany in December 5, 1941. Six people died in exile. Stane Žagar organised armed resistance against the German occupiers. He formed the Jelovica battle group in July 29, 1941. He died in the battle in March 27, 1942, close to Škofja Loka, together with 14 Partisan comrades.
Memorial plaque to the illegal printing facility in 1943 at the house pri Pogvajnu. The mimeograph machine printed radio news and poems for the resistance. The activity ended tragically on April 7, 1943 when someone betrayed it to the Germans. One activist was killed when the Germans attacked the partisan bunker in the basement, two others were wounded. One of the wounded obeyed the plea of the other one and killed him. The survivor was captured by the German police and executed two days later in Begunje. Also the landlord Pogvajn was taken to Begunje and killed. His family was deported to Weisenburg, Bavaria.
This tunnel, which served for iron ore digging, dates back to the 18th century (1.3 km, 15 min on foot).
Walk from Srednja Dobrava to the edge of the plain to the SE to the view point Stovc to see the Upper Sava Valley and the Karavanke mountain range. Zgornjesavska Valley rests in the utmost Northwestern part of Slovenia, close to the borders with Austria and Italy. The valley is embraced by the peaks of the Julian Alps in the SW and the Karavanke Mountains in the NE. The Julian Alps can be seen from the Srednja Dobrava fields, too.
If this isn't enough, you may continue along the edge of Dobrava plateau to the path which descends to the Sava river and follow the path along the right river bank to the bridge in Globoko. And return to Srednja Dobrava from there.
Walk from Srednja Dobrava to Zgornja Dobrava and through the wood to the Vreče view point (Ojstra peč Sharp rock) and back. From the jotting out view point you can see Radovljica, the Sava valley 100 m beneath and the Karavanke mountain range. If you proceed walking further to the left, you arrive at another view point (called Zjavka) with a picnic place, from where you can admire the village Kamna Gorica.
Daily menus (malica), view on Jamnik from the tables under linden trees.
Located 720 m high, the hunting cottage offers amazing views on the upper Sava valley, Bled and the Karavanke range.
Malica, a warm snack that costs about €6.
Balkan cuisine, i.e. meat on the grill, daily menus.
Trout from the pond in front of the ancient mill house (mlin).
Excellent stew.
The family house (only the upper apartment is available for letting) is located in the middle of a big garden, with parking facilities for 4 cars and a shed for one car. The apartment consists of a kitchen, a pantry, a bathroom, a toilet, a sitting room (it turns into a sleeping room with 2 beds at night), a sleeping room, a study, a hall, a balcony and a terrace. From the balcony you can see the church on Jamnik, the mountain above Kropa and a great deal of Jelovica plateau.
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By bus
There is a bus connection from Kranj to Kropa (your stop at Lipnica) twice a day and more frequent lines from Radovljica to Podnart.
By car
From the motorway Ljubljana-Jesenice take the exit Brezje, then turn towards Globoko, cross the Sava River and go through Mišače uphill to Srednja Dobrava.
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