Rožnik
Wooded hilltop with a pilgrimage church, an old inn and a writer's reconstructed memorial room.
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This guide to Rožnik, the wooded hill on the edge of Ljubljana, follows the writer Ivan Cankar through the seven years he spent living at the hilltop inn, from nineteen ten to nineteen seventeen. It touches an engagement left waiting in Vienna, the innkeeping family who took him in, and the books he wrote at his desk each morning. Listen standing between the inn and the Visitation Church.
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