Kidričeva Street

Magistrala, which was later renamed Kidričeva Street, was designed as the town’s main street with a colonnade and walking paths, where life in town would take place in the shade of trees. Although it was not built according to the original plan in a foreseen length and with all the buildings, we can still feel the character of the town imagined by the Slovenian architect Edvard Ravnikar in 1947. It is still today one of the longest and widest streets in Nova Gorica, with extensive green areas, where various tree species from all over the world grow. Along the street, there is the main town square in front of the Municipal Palace and some important buildings (block of apartments called Čebelnjak (Beehives), post office, Skyscraper, bus station and others). To the north from the street, there is a view of Sveta Gora (Holy Mountain), a pilgrimage centre. In addition to works to regulate the Koren brook, Magistrala was one of the first works carried out by the youth work brigades on the construction site of the emerging town in 1948. The image of the street was once marked by concrete poles for street lights, placed in the middle of it and removed around 1968.