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Museum of Hostages, Begunje na Gorenjskem

Interior of the Museum of Hostages, Begunje na Gorenjskem

The Museum of Hostages in Begunje na Gorenjskem was founded by the Municipality of Radovljica in 1961 and incorporated into the Radovljica Municipality Museums in 1963. It is housed in the northwest wing of the Katzenstein mansion, where the cells of those condemned to death were located during the Second World War. The mansion, with its interesting history from the 14th century onwards, is now a psychiatric hospital. The museum is declared a cultural monument of national importance together with the Katzenstein mansion, the memorial park in Draga Valley, the avenue lined with chestnut trees, and the pavilions Jožamurka and Brezjanka designed by Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik.

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Hrušica - Museum Collection and Archaeological Park

View from the northern part of the Roman fortress Ad Pirum to its southern lower part. Hrušica - Museum Collection and Archaeological Park

Once a strategic point on the Roman military and trade route between Aquilea and Emona (Ljubljana), the Hrušica - Museum Collection and Archaeological Park is located on the pass between Logatec and Ajdovščina. An open air archaeological site with a room of excavated items in the nearby guest house Stara Pošta ("Old Post Office") presents the important Roman military stronghold called Ad Pirum.

The site was part of an 80-kilometre-long protection system of walls and strongholds that reached from the Julian Alps to the Adriatic Sea called Claustra Alpium Iuliarum. The remains of that wall are the biggest monument to Roman times in Slovenia.

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