From 22 to 24 October 2024, the members of the “Heritage on the Margins” programme group hiked through the Vipava Hills, part of the Upper Vipava Valley or sub-Mediterranean Slovenia, and got to know this traditional wine-growing region from the perspective of heritagization. The entire article is published in Slovenian; you can access it by…
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Introduction The landscape of the Sečovlje salt pans was studied through literature, films, videos, volunteer work and in-depth visits. This paper highlights the uncoordinated activity between the actors or managers of (new) nature and culture and encourage their integration. In the case of the Sečovlje salt pans, there are two main actors: the Sečovlje Salina…
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An autumn landscape filled with falling leaves. The vast hills of Goričko merging seamlessly into Porabje. On the first day of our fourth walking seminar, an exploratory hike through Goričko and Porabje, we started along the Slovenian-Austrian-Hungarian tri-border, observing how the same historical events can be labelled and understood differently. In the light of understanding…
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In the year Slovenia is entitled European Gastronomic Region 2021, Anton Melik Geographical Institute ZRC SAZU published a special issue of Acta Geographica Slovenica: 61, 1 (2021), Gastronomy, territory and tourism. Special edition contributions with DOI links: Gastronomy tourism: A brief introduction(Nika Razpotnik Visković, Blaž Komac)DOI: https://doi.org/10.3986/AGS.10258 Culinary events in the Slovenian countryside: Visitors’ motives,…
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On 27 and 28 May 2021, the University of Salento in Lecce, Italy, hosted a thematic virtual regional conference of International Geographical Union entitled Heritage Geography: Policies, Use and Governance in the Past. It was scheduled to be live in 2020, but its staging was prevented by the outbreak of a COVID-19 global pandemic. Papers…
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The team of the research programme Heritage on the Margins set off for a walking seminar on 8 and 9 September 2020. We visited Southern Carinthia, an Austrian borderland. The peculiarity and fatality of its geographical location was presented to us by Zdravko Haderlap, a well-known local and a versatile cultural worker. He is constantly…
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Agricultural terraces are among the most recognisable of man-made landscape elements, which mankind has built-up gradually in adapting to the natural conditions and improving the chances of survival. Terracing has facilitated cultivation, enabled intensification, reduced water and wind erosion, increased and retained soil moisture, and gained land at the same time. Terraced landscapes have been…
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