Saint Martin’s Church
Neo-Gothic parish church with interwar frescoes by Slavko Pengov and fifteenth-century walls.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Saint Martin's Church in Bled steps inside the nineteen-thirties, when the painter Slavko Pengov was covering its walls in fresco, and asks what a congregation kneels beneath. It touches the old belief in the betrayer at Christ's table, the parish ritual of communion, and the fifteenth-century walls that recall the Turkish raids. Stand facing the frescoes in the nave as you listen.
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