Upper Carniola
(Gorenjska)
Gorenjska is a region in the North-west of Slovenia. The centre of the region is Kranj.
Kranj is 20km away from Ljubljana and it have about 50.000 citizens.
Other smaller towns are: Jesenice, Tržič, Škofja Loka, Kamnik, and Domžale.
Gorenjska:
Upper Carniola is bounded by Carinthia (i.e. the Austrian state of Carinthia and Slovenian
Carinthia) in the north, the historic Lower Styria (Štajerska) region in the east and the
Slovenian Littoral (Primorska) in the west. In the south, the Ljubljanica and Sava rivers form
the border to Inner Carniola and Lower Carniola resp. The landscape is characterised by the
mountains of the Southern Limestone Alps, predominantly by the Julian Alps and the
Karavanke range at north.
Historically, Ljubljana was part of Upper Carniola. However, already in the 19th century, it
started to be considered as a separate unit; already by the late 18th century, there are very
few reference to the people of Ljubljana as "Upper Carniolans" (Gorenjci): it was a general
perception that Upper Carniola proper starts only north of Ljubljana. Since the 19th century,
Kranj, not Ljubljana, is considered as the unofficial capital of Upper Carniola.
Nowadays, the borders of Upper Carniola are usually identified with those of the Slovene
statistical region of Gorenjska, though the areas are only roughly congruent. E.g. the
municipality of Jezersko used to be part of the Duchy of Carinthia, in 1918 it was occupied by
Slovene volunteers and annexed to Yugoslavia by the 1919Treaty of Saint-Germain.
Nevertheless it is today generally considered as an integral part of Upper Carniola, rather
than of Slovenian Carinthia.
Upper Carniola is famous for winter sports as: skiing, snowboarding, hockey… And also for
summer activities like: climbing, walking, nordic walking…
Some towns in Upper Carniola
Kranj:
Kranj is 20km away from Ljubljana and it has about 50.000 citizens.
Kranj's crest:
Kranj:
Bled:
Bled is a town in the northwestern Slovenia in the region of Upper Carniola.
Attractions:
Bled is known for the glacial lake Bled which makes it a major tourist attraction.
Built on a rock overlooking the lake is the iconic Bled castle.
The town in also known in Slovenia for it’s vanilla and cream pastry called cream slice.
The largest tourist attraction is the island with a church.
In summer is the lake worm and in winter it is frozen so that many people can swim and
skate on it.
The castle
The church
Bohinj:
Bohinj is a town in the northwestern Slovenia in the region of Upper Carniola.
Attractions:
Bohinj is known for the periglacial lake Bohinj and Sava Bohinjka(river) which makes it a
major tourist attraction.Sava Bohinjka begins when two rivers the Jezernica, Mostnica and
many smaller streams merge.The largest of them is Savica Falls.
A years ago Bohinj began opening up for turists.
Bohinj has become a starting point for tourists for climbing, walk on the trails,
mountaineering...
Savica falls
The bohinj lake
Kranjska Gora
Kranjska Gora is a town in the northwestern Slovenia in the region of Upper Carniola
Attractions :
Kranjska Gora is known as a winter sports town.
Kranjska Gora every year hosts an event in the Alpine skiing World Cup series,also known as the
Vitranc Cup for the slalom and giant slalom events.The well-known ski jumping hill Planica is located
in the nerby Tamar Valley.
Ski jumping hill Planica
Preparations for the Vitranc Cup
Food
The most known food from Upper Carniola is cream slice.
The vanilla and custard cream cake dessert commonly associated with the town of Bled,
an Alpine tourist destination in northwestern Slovenia.
The recipe cake was brought to the local Hotel Park in 1953 by Ištvan Kovačevič, chef of the
hotel's confectionery store. He came to Bled from Serbia where a similar cake was already
known.
As of October 2009, 10 million cream cakes have been baked at the hotel's patisserie since
its invention.
Most locals refer to it as kremšnita, from the German word Cremeschnitte, with the same
meaning.
Cream slice:
Economy
Farming and forestry
Upper Carniola covers 10.5% of Slovenia
6.4% of all farming area
12.4% of all forests
and 20.7% of Barren surfaces
Industry
There are 3 brinches:
- manufacture of electrical machinery
-manufacture of finished wood products
-metal processing industry
some factories:
Sources:
-Books: Gorenjski glas, Veliki splošni leksikon, Slovenia today.
-Internet: http://www.kam.si/gorenjska.html, wikipedia, http://kraji.eu/slovenija/bled/slo
Made by: Žiga Likar, Lenart Raspotnik, Tine Peterlin