In this building, during the years 1930-1931, the Pasolini family lived: the father Carlo, the mother Susanna, and the two sons, Pier Paolo and Guido Alberto. According to the general census of the Italian population in April 1931, their residential address was Via San Marco 1, which corresponds exactly to this historic building, known locally […]

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) was a versatile Italian creator: writer, poet, playwright, director, essayist, and philosopher. His works often intertwine with personal memories, including those of Idrija, where he spent part of 1930 as a child. He reflects on this period in his novel Amado mio, which, along with Petrolio, Una vita violenta, Teorema, and […]

This site once hosted a popular natural bathing spot, known to locals as Pri ta debeli skali (“At the Fat Rock”). A quiet and secluded corner near the water, it served as a place for relaxation and childhood play: it is very likely that Pier Paolo Pasolini himself swam here during the summer months he […]

Following the Italian occupation, football in Idrija was initially played only by soldiers: first in Brusovše and then on a proper pitch in Prejnuta, supported by the mining administration. Football experienced a boom in 1932. The local population approached this sport mainly by observing the Italians, which significantly influenced the development of football in Idrija […]

The wooden water channel – known as Rake – was built in Idrija at the end of the 16th century. Nearly four kilometers long, it provided water for over 350 years to the kamšt (water pumps), sawmills, mining machinery, and, later on, to the Lenštat power plant. Miners walked along it daily, and the path […]

The Church of Sant’Antonio Abate in Versuta, a symbolic place in Pasolini’s geography, preserves a rural atmosphere that is still intact. The building, an expansion of an 11th-century oratory, is enriched by a cycle of late-Gothic frescoes of high artistic value and by a statue of the saint with a piglet, the patron saint of […]