This article is an update on the chronicle of our tourism research project in Brežice, Slovenia. Two previous articles, here on our magazine blog are called:
Deep-mapping in Slovenia, dateline March 11, 2023
In the Middle of Things, dateline April 06, 2023
In the Field
From Sunday evening, May 14, 2023 until the morning of Thursday May 18th we completed the second step of our 3-step project. This was the fieldwork step. We were following the process shown in Table 5.7, page 96 of our book for travel writers in tourism and city branding. The places to explore in the town focussed on the writing plateaus that had been identified by the team during Step 1, the library step and included Wild Chestnut Avenue, The Jazz Bar Café, Huda Pizza and The Posavje Museum Brežice. You can visit the museum's English-language website here at https://www.pmb.si/EN/
Wild Chestnut Avenue is labelled on Maps as Kostanjev drevored. It is a flat space laid-out to look at the eastern wall of the castle. It has park benches, an old iron hand pump for water and a new drinking fountain. It is at the address of Prešernova cesta 3. Where cesta means street, and the name celebrates France Prešeren (1800-1849), the Romantic Slovenian poet. We centred our cultural tourism research here in May 2023 for a literary travel writing project that explores the Celtic Iron Age legacy of the town and the museum artefacts discovered near here.
Bronze Age Situla
The museum artefacts that we focussed on in the second visit to The Posavje Museum Brežice were the Celtic finds from a dig near the river Sava here in Brežice. The area was dated to between 250 BCE and 150 BCE, so it was extraordinary that a more recent dig team, in 2017, had discovered a bronze vessel, a situla, of the same style as those made in Verona, Italy. This meant that the large bronze vessel was already over 100 years old when it was cared for by the Iron Age dwellers here, and had been carried 450 kilometres by the Celtic tribe.
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