Podbrdo, Tolmin

Podbrdo is a town in Slovenia in the municipality of Tolmin.
It lies in narrow bottom of upper Baška grapa (Bača ravine) next to the railway (Prague) - Jesenice - Nova Gorica - Triest at the end of longest Slovenian tunnel (6.327,3 m) and next to the road from Bohinjska Bistrica and Železniki across Petrovo Brdo toward to Most na Soči. It has less than 800 inhabitants.

History

Settlement occurred in the 16th century on range of Tyrolese colonisation (Rihtarija Nemški Rut) in 13th century as a settlement of Bača pri Podbrdu under a name Binchinuel.

Cultural Heritage

The most important building is parish church of Saint Nicolas from the baroque period, many houses from 19th century, monument to the workers victims at construction of the Bohinj tunnel and memorials of uprising against fascism (between WWI and WWII Podbrdo was a part of Italy).

Natural Heritage

Podbrdo is surrounded by many attractive mountains like Slatnik (1589 m), Lajnar (1549 m), Vrh Bače (1281 m), Črna prst (1844m), Kobla (1498m) and Porezen (1622 m).
Sunny side of Črna prst is very attractive to botanists for more than 200 years. On the mountain meadows it is possible to find rare species:

*Moehringia villosa (Kratkodlakava popkoresa), an endemic flower of Bača ravine,
*Silvery Crane's Bill (Geranium argenteum),
*Alpine Sea Holly (Eryngium alpinum),
*Tephroseris pseudocrispa,
*Campanula zoysii,
*Artemisia nitida
*and many more.

Gallery

External links

* [http://www.o-podbrdo.ng.edus.si Podbrdo primary school]
* [http://bijh.zrc-sazu.si/BIO/SI/FloVegSi/BIS/Flora/SLV_TaxData.asp?Code=2925 Moehringia villosa]
* [http://www.zglavocezbalanco.com/kolesarjenje-prikaz.php?id=7 Cycling in Bača ravine]