Understand
Nova Gorica Tourist Information Centre, Bevkov trg 4, 5000 Nova Gorica. Tel:+386 (0)5 330 4600
Fax:+386 (0)5 330 46 06, , .
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It's main tourist attractions are casinos, such as Perla and Park. They mostly cater for Italian gamblers.
For more cosmopolitan travelers Sveta Gora or Kostanjevica should be more interesting. The first is a traditional pilgrimage destination, while the other houses the tomb of Bourbones.
Drink
In summer, be sure to check the local student's club evening programme at "Poletna Scena" in the center of the town.
Get out
Brda wine region is near and inviting. A trip to Štanjel, a typical Karst village, is also recomended.
Contact
Official Travel Guide by Slovenian Tourist Board
Nova Gorica (population: 13,852 (town); 22,000 (incl. suburbs); 31,000 (municipality)) is a town and a municipality in western Slovenia, on the Italian border. Nova Gorica is a new town, built in 1948, when the Paris Peace Treaty established a new border between Yugoslavia and Italy, leaving nearby Gorizia outside the borders of Yugoslavia and thus decapitating the area of the lower Vipava Valley from its regional center. Nova Gorica is the principal urban center of the traditional region of Goriška in the Slovenian Littoral.
To the south of the town lies Kostanjevica Hill, home to the Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady and a 17th-century Franciscan monastery whose treasures from the past are rich indeed. The last members of the Bourbons, the French royal family, are buried in a crypt beneath the church (Charles X himself, and members of his family and entourage including his son Louis-Antoine de France, and his grandson Henri d'Artois, nephew of Louis (neither Louis-Antoine nor Henri ever reigned as kings). He fled France following the revolution in 1830, finding refuge in Gorizia, and eventually eternal peace.
Opposite Kostanjevica Hill, north of the town is Sveta Gora (Holy Mountain), a peak of 682 m that has attracted pilgrims for 450 years. The view from there is exceptional, and on a clear day visitors can see as far as Istria, Venice, the Dolomites, and the Kamnik and Julian Alps. The mountain top is home to a magnificent basilica, where concerts are occasionally held, a Franciscan monastery, and a museum of the Battles of the Isonzo.
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