The Cistercian Monastery Kostanjevica na Krki was built on a marshy plain near the Krka River in 1234. The Spring of St Mary Monastery (Fons sanctae Mariae), whose parish was in Carinthian Vetrinje, was grounded by Carinthian Duke Bernard Spanheim and his wife Juta and should not be mistaken for the Franciscan monastery Kostanjevica in Nova Gorica. It is known for having the most extensive arcades in Slovenia.
It houses the Božidar Jakac Art Museum and the Forma Viva Open Air Wood Sculpture Collection in a adjacent park. The monastery Gothic church is considered to be one of the top ranking exhibition venues in Slovenia in terms of the intriguing task – to conceive a site-specific project of contemporary, traditional and pre-historic art. The whole complex (monastery, Palaeolithic archaeological site, park with Forma Viva) is declared a cultural monument of state importance.
Agnessa Ivanova Petrova, Streams, 2006 Božidar Jakac Art Museum, Kostanjevica na Krki
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Baza 20 was one of the numerous camps in the woods of Kočevski Rog which were once the commanding structures of the National Liberation Movement of Slovenia in the Second World War. Numerous secretively built partisan structures and settlements scattered in the Kočevski Rog forest had the code name Baza plus number: 15, 15a, 21, 80, etc. Only Baza 20 and the field hospitals Jelendol and Zgornji Hrastnik have been preserved as monuments of national and cultural heritage and have also undergone extensive restoration work.
This former base camp (baza), which was granted the status of a cultural and historical monument of national importance in 1952, has been managed by the Dolenjska Museum in Novo mesto since 1994.
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