Zagreb – Gredelj

Zagreb – Gredelj is an abandoned industrial zone for the production of railway waggons, located in Zagreb city centre. A few years ago, factory facilities were moved to the new location in Zagreb suburbia. The city government aims to revitalise…

Ljubljana – Rog Autonomous Factory

Ljubljana – Rog Autonomous Factory, known as Rog, was a squatted bicycle factory in Ljubljana. The bicycle manufacturer Rog constructed the factory in 1951 and used it until 1991, when the site became abandoned. It was recognised as a monument…

Drašiči

Drašiči (199 inhabitants) is a remote village in the Municipality of Metlika in the White Carniola area, next to the border with Croatia. Its specific is a “parallel” economic system, which is based on the principle of “the commons”. An…

Goričko

Goričko (26.070 inhabitants) is the Slovenian part of a Three Countries Park with Austria and Hungary and an important habitat of endangered plant and animal species in Europe. Present-day Goričko is, as explained by our project team member Miha Kozorog,…

Gorski kotar

Gorski kotar (19.032 inhabitants) is a mountainous region situated in the northeast of the Primorje-Gorski kotar County in Croatia and it includes three towns and six municipalities. Settlements are dispersed with a relatively small number of inhabitants. This part of…

Robidišće

Robidišče (13 inhabitants) is Slovenia’s westernmost settlement. It is located in the Municipality of Kobarid in the Littoral region on the border with Italy. In the Middle Age this area was owned by the Patriarch of Aquileia. Later the village…

Island of Žirje

Žirje Island (150 inhabitants) is an island and a settlement in the Adriatic Sea. It is situated in the Šibenik archipelago, about 22 kilometres southwest of Šibenik, making it the most remote permanently inhabited island in the archipelago. Its area…

Petrinja

Petrinja (25,000 inhabitants) is a town in central Croatia. In the 20th century, its importance began to diminish due to the neighbouring city of Sisak, which was in a better location for transportation routes and was consequently reached by industrialization…

Žumberak

Žumberak (Croatian) / Gorjanci (Slovenian) is a range of hills and mountains in northwestern Croatia and southeastern Slovenia, extending from the southwest to the northeast between the Krka and the Kupa / Kolpa. It covers an area of 430 km2.…