Črni Kal
Place in Littoral, Slovenia
45°33′0.01″N 13°52′42.38″E / 45.5500028°N 13.8784389°E / 45.5500028; 13.8784389
Slovenia (2002)
Črni Kal (pronounced [ˈtʃəɾni ˈkaːu̯]; Italian: San Sergio) is a village in southwestern Slovenia in the City Municipality of Koper.[2] It is best known today for the Črni Kal Viaduct, the longest and the highest viaduct in Slovenia.
Name
The name Črni Kal literally means 'black pond', based on the common noun kal 'pond, watering hole' and referring to a local geographical feature.[3]
Architecture
Houses
The village has some good examples of traditional Karst architecture. One such monument is the Benko House, built in 1489 by stonemasons Andrej (Andrew) and Benko (Benjamin) as indicated by an inscription on the building: Andreas et Benco construxerunt. This makes it oldest surviving farmhouse in the Koper area and is also the oldest signed and dated secular building in all of Slovenia. It stands on the lower edge of the village core and is made of chiseled limestone and marlstone blocks. It comprises two buildings with inscriptions in the Glagolitic alphabet on the facade. The older building is the main house, with Romanesque as well as late-Gothic features.[4]
Church
The local church is dedicated to Saint Lawrence and belongs to the Parish of Predloka.[5] The church's bell tower leans to the west, deviating from the vertical by more than a meter.[6]
References
- ^ Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
- ^ Koper Municipality site
- ^ Snoj, Marko (2009). Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan. pp. 101, 182.
- ^ Slovenian Tourist Board site
- ^ Roman Catholic Diocese of Koper List of Churches May 2008
- ^ Kladnik, Darinka (1995). Sto slovenskih krajev. Ljubljana: Prešernova družba. p. 11.
External links
Media related to Črni Kal at Wikimedia Commons- Črni Kal on Geopedia
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Administrative seat: Koper
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people
- Zvest Apollonio
- Gian Rinaldo Carli
- Vittore Carpaccio
- Boris Cavazza
- Giorgio Cobolli
- Lucija Čok
- Zlatko Dedić
- Lorella Flego
- Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini
- Lucrezio Gravisi
- Franco Juri
- Tinkara Kovač
- Igor Pribac
- Tomaž Šalamun
- Santorio Santorio
- Nazario Sauro
- Spartaco Schergat
- Francesco Trevisani
- Pier Paolo Vergerio
- Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder
- Vittorio Italico Zupelli
