Hotel Tartini is perfectly situated with a choice of a view over Tartini Square or a balcony view towards the harbour and the sea beyond. On arrival at the hotel we found we had a room with a birds eye view of the square, a perfect room with a perfect view. During our stay we [...]
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Hotel Tartini – Piran
6 Comments CherryPie on Dec 11th 2015
St. Francis Church is situated next to the Franciscan monastery. In front of it there is a small square, formerly used as a cemetery. The construction of the church and the monastery reaches back to the year 1301. Despite many restorations, traces of the period in which the church was built can still be seen [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Dec 10th 2015
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Venetian Hanging House – Piran
10 Comments CherryPie on Dec 9th 2015
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The Town Walls – Piran
The largest part of the preserved walls dates from the beginning of the 15th and the end of the 16th century and has become an integral part of the medieval city structure. The largest preserved section of the walls on the Mogoran hill has exceptional historical value and marks the end of the medieval town [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Dec 8th 2015
The Crucified from Piran is located with in the Church of St George.
In 2009 a glass case was installed above the choir banks on the right-hand side of the presbytery to keep the Crucified from Piran, one of the key monuments of the Mediaeval sculpture art in Slovenia. The Gothic art especially intensifies the martyrdom [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Dec 5th 2015
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Church of St George – Piran
Above the compact town centre reigns St. George’s Cathedral, which gives the city its special character. It was probably built in the 12th century, but no exact data in this regard exists.
In the 14th century, it was built to its present size. In the year 1344, on the Day of St. George, the cathedral was [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Dec 4th 2015
The bell tower predominates over the town of Piran.
This [the bell tower] was completed in 1608 and is a small-scale copy of the campanile of San Marco in Venice, which confirms that it was built in the period of the Venetian influence on Piran. Among other newer bells, there is also a bell from the [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Dec 3rd 2015
