(ANSA) - LJUBLJANA, MAY 19 - The Museum of smuggling has been
inaugurated in Prestava, a village near Nova Gorica, in the
premises that once housed the customs office at the border
between Italy and Slovenia, then part of Yugoslavia.
The museum's director, Vladimir Perunicic, explained at a
press conference that, in the exhibition rooms, the atmosphere
that reigned along this border area will be reconstructed thanks
to archive images.
Especially in the years immediately after the end of the
second world war, the inhabitants of this area tried to improve
their standard of living by smuggling goods between the two
countries.
The Museum of Smuggling is part of a border museum project
that aims to renovate the sites of memory, such as the Military
Tower of Vertoiba (Vrtojba), the Nova Gorica railway station,
and the Permanent Memory Collection located in the cemetery area
of Gorizia (Italy). Thanks to the bilateral collaboration
between Italy and Slovenia, the future goal of the promoters is
to connect the four museums by a path and a cycle path. (ANSA).
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