Mlino Port for Pletna Boat
Lakeside pier where standing oarsmen launch traditional wooden pletna boats toward the island.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Mlino pletna pier on Lake Bled is about the farming village whose name means mill, and the families who have rowed visitors to the island for generations. It reaches back to an eighteenth-century empress and the bargain she struck with Mlino's farmers, then to a landowner and a communist state that each tried to take the oars away. Best heard on the pier, watching a boatman standing at the stern.
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