Architecture sights in Kranj
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Parish Church of St Cantianus
The Parish Church of St Cantianus, which was built on to part of an older church starting in about 1400, is the best example of a hall church (ie one with a nave and aisles of equal height) in Slovenia. The Mount of Olives relief in the arch above the main portal dating from 1450 is well worth a look before entering, as is the modern altar (1934) designed by Ivan Vurnik. Below the north side of the church there are more old bones from early Slavic graves and a medieval ossuary.
On the south wall is a lapidarium of tombstones dating from the Middle Ages and nearby the Fountain of St John Nepomuk, with a stone statue of the 14th-century Bohemian martyr complete with a dolef…
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Plague Church
Another 300m further south, the Old Town dead-ends behind the Plague Church, built during a time of pestilence in 1470 and dedicated to the three 'intercessors against the plague' - Sts Rok, Fabian and Sebastian. It is now used by Serbian Orthodox Christians. The three-storey defence tower (obrambni stolp) beside the church was built in the 16th century.
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Church of the Holy Rosary
At the end of Tomšičeva ulica northwest of Pungert is the Church of the Holy Rosary, built in the 16th century. It was a Protestant sanctuary during the Reformation. Beside the church are arcades, a fountain and a monumental staircase designed in the late 1950s by Jože Plečnik to give Kranj a dramatic entrance up from the Sava River.
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Church of St Margaret
The reconstructed Church of St Margaret is atop the Šmarjetna Gora, a 643m hill 3km northwest of the Old Town. The views from here of Kranj, the Alps and the Sava River are astonishing.
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