16/08/2024
Did you know?
On the border of Italy and Gorizia is one of those rare hidden gems that is simply not on the radar of most tourists, or even most Italians. At the end of the second world war, the city was unceremoniously split between post-Mussolini Italy and communist Yugoslavia. A brutal metal barrier, topped with barbed wire and patrolled by armed soldiers, separated homes and families, as happened in Berlin, but this town’s fate had little attention from the world’s media. All that is set to change.
Thousand-year-old Gorizia and Slovenia’s Nova Gorica – an idealistic “New Gorizia” founded in 1947 on the other side of the border – have succeeded in an audacious joint bid to become the first-ever single European capital of culture to combine cities in two countries.
For the moment, Gorizia is one of those rare hidden gems that is simply not on the radar of most tourists, or even most Italians.
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