Park Špica
Riverside park on a pointed spit with wooden terraces where the river splits into a canal.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Park Špica in Ljubljana starts at the point where the Ljubljanica splits in two, and follows the straight channel that peels away from it. It is the story of Gabriel Gruber, an eighteenth-century Jesuit who taught hydraulics in the city, and of the marsh south of town that flooded year after year. Best heard standing at the very tip of the park, watching the water divide.
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