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Western facade of the castle; access was originally protected by a canal and drawbridge
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East portal with year 1758
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Three corners of castle are fortified by thin three-storeyed cylindrical towers
which are half of storey higher than castle wings
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Ground floors are lit by smaller rectangular windows and in the storeys are bigger
rectangulat windows enclosed into simple aprofiled mortar frames
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Main castle rustic portal on the east side
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Portal with year 1527
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Simple wooden staircase leading from east to inner courtyard
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Heraldic plate from first half of 16th century embedded on the staircase
(presumably coat-of-arms of Gorizia county, joint with Austrian archduke coat-of-arms)
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South-western courtyard corner
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North-eastern corner
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In 1990 they reopened vault arcs closed in 19th century in both floors
and renewed remarkable architectural painting
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Eastern facade is emphasized by tall roof turret with clock
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Latern-like roof is completed with weather vane in form of Mercury
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Western facade of castle courtyard with Baroque painting renewed in 1990
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Pointed-arch late-Gothic portal in ground floor of south wing evidents that
a building was located on the same place even before the present castle was constructed
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Corridor on ground floor of south wing
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Empty courtyard space is dominated by octagonal stone crown of a well
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Container for transferring mercury
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In the first floor of north-east roundel door is located which represent symbolic
crossing from preparation to results of work; night guard hits on metal and thus calling miners to "reading"
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We continue from roundel to east wing where exhibition "view of a town" is arranged
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Space where famous people are presented who came to see Idrija mine or were even among its owners
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Time of Italian and German occupation
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"Living in Idrija"
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Year 1758 in vaulted corridor on the second floor of south wing shows the time
of facade painting creation
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Stone portal from 1853, address Idrija 242 (present address Vodnikova 5) is located
in the corridor in second floor of south wing
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Memorial room of writer France Bevk (1890-1970)
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Exhibition space of Idrija lace
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Peasant frescos in corridor on second floor of east wing
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Sveta Neža (St.Agnes), 1802, near Tratnik,
čekovnik
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Corridor in the floor of south wing is decorated by historical paintings by Janko Trošt (1894-1975)
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Work of miners in the mid 17th century
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"Mercury" tower represents symbolic entrance into the world of Idrija mining underground and
it is formed as a mineshaft in three storeys
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Mercury ores and Lipold's collection
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Exhibition hall "Milestones of five centuries"
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Model of largest European pumping device powered by water which was continuously used
until 1948; wooden spade-shaped overshoot has a diameter of 16,3 meters
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Where nowadays a kindergarden is located a Baroque garden was once (even before WW II)
located
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View of part of Idrija
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Idrija with castle in Valvasor's "Skicna knjiga" ("Sketch book")
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Jakob Adam, Idrija with castle
around 1775, copper engraving from the book Baltazar Hacquet, Oryctographia Carniolica II, Leipzig, 1781
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Idrija with castle on colored copper engraving by Karl Postl
from Eder's suite by a sketch by Ferdinand Runk from the end of 18th century, Ljubljana, Narodni
muzej Slovenije; photo: Tomaž Lauko
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Idrija with castle on lithography in Wagner's suite of Carniola, around 1845
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In 1945 damaged Gewerkenegg castle, used from: Idrijski razgledi, 1972
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