NOVA GORICA, Feb 8 — Film director Anja Medved has long dwelled on the pain of her grandmother, who was separated from her family when the border between Italy and then...
How Gorizia and Nova Gorica , one Italian and one Slovenian Town , are embracing unity as European cultural capitalsNew to investing?as a first-time user . Exclusively for Malay Mail readers: Use code NOVA GORICA, Feb 8 — Film director Anja Medved has long dwelled on the pain of her grandmother, who was separated from her family when the border between Italy and then Yugoslavia was drawn up after World War II in 1947.
Italy’s Gorizia was founded more than 1,000 years ago and sports characteristic cobble-stone lanes, while just across the railway tracks, which mark the border, Slovenia’s Nova Gorica has wide streets with many trees and parks. People cross the railway track at the border between Italy and Slovenia in Gorizia, Italy on January 23, 2025. — AFP picTwenty years later, some 400 events from Saturday will mark the towns being Europe’s cultural capital 2025.
“Borders are there to be overcome... The good thing of borders is they invite you to look over them,” Medved said. This contrasted with the experience of especially her grandmother who was born in Gorizia but moved into a village outside the town when she married. While 13,000 people live in central Nova Gorica, where demand for housing is high, Gorizia has seen its population drop to 32,000 people.That is almost half of what it was 30 years ago, with some Slovenians most recently snapping up properties in the Italian town, where businesses are closing and real estate prices have dropped.
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