Žale Cemetery
Garden of classical chapels of rest behind a colonnaded gateway, designed as a place of consolation.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Plečnik's Žale in Ljubljana starts at the colonnaded gateway at the cemetery entrance, in the late nineteen thirties, when the city set out to change how it said goodbye to its dead. It follows the architect Jože Plečnik as he reworks a rejected plan, and the parishes and saints whose names ended up on his chapels. Best heard standing directly under the arch.
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