Fallen border – two years after (Gorizia – Nova Gorica)

In the beginning of the week I did a feature reportage on the former border between Slovenia and Italy. It’s popular to say that border between Yugoslavia and Italy was a part of Iron Curtain, although it doesn’t deserve that name especially if you compare it to the border between Austria and Czechoslovakia. Anyhow border is gone, Nova Gorica and Gorizia are one town again and with journalist Toni Dugorepec we did a story on how is it 60 years after it was split between Italy and Yugoslavia and two years after it’s reunited. It’ll be published in Mladina.

PS: How do you like my new theme and bigger photos?

In Slovenia cigarettes and gasoline are still cheaper then in Italy.

A booth of former police control point is now a place where flowers grow (Slovenian side)

On Monday there was a concert on the border.


Boy sitting on the wall build on the border. Beneath him there is a sign Together on Europa.

The border.

On the border there is a joined city square that half of it is in Slovenia’s Nova Goriza half of it is in Italian Gorica, but it has two different names. Slovenian name for the square is EU square whereas Italian name is Transalpina square.

A night scene on the train station on the former border.