A bronze sculpture of a fighting partisan, the work of Postojna-born sculptor Frančišek Smerdu, rounds off the image of the square and shares its name with it. The monument, with its dramatic expressive power, reminds us of the difficult war times on the already hard karst land.
Attention! Step closer to Smerdu’s partisan and take a good look at where he’s aiming.
Frančišek Smerdu (1908–1964), an academic sculptor who studied both in Vienna and with the great Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović in Zagreb, is recognised in Slovenia primarily for his public, monumental sculptures. With such creations, he left his mark in Postojna as well.
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The bronze bust on the stone column is the work of the academic sculptor Stojan Batič (1925–2015). For the first time, the Vilhar monument was ceremoniously erected in 1906, according to the plan of the sculptor Alojzij Repič (1866–1941) and architect Ivan Jager (1871–1959). In 1926, due to fascist desecration, it was transferred to the...
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A monument in memory of the political internees and conscripts of the Italian army in Sardinia who defected to the Allied side after the capitulation of Italy. The monument was erected in 1972 at the meeting place of returnees. The stone monument is the work of the architect Stane Dolenc, born in Postojna.
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