Jesenice - the city of iron workers
Proposal of the day trip

We invite you to Jesenice to get to know this hardworking city, vitally connected to the land and its riches. 

Jesenice's varied history has left a lasting mark not only on the people who live and work here, but also on the town, where we can find numerous preserved cultural monuments, the facades of many Jesenice town buildings, many exhibits and preserved documents.

Already in the early post-war years, Jesenice ironworks needed more workers than could come from the surrounding areas and beyond. 

Workers came to Jesenice from other parts of Slovenia and, later, from all parts of the former Yugoslavia.

If you want to learn more about the lifestyle of working-class families, you are invited to visit the Museum of Worker Culture in Stara Sava.

In the kitchen of a working-class apartment from the interwar period, you will be welcomed by the wife of a Jesenice ironworker and told what they eat on the surrounding farms, what is on the bourgeois menu during the week, and how she must be able to copy in order to put something good on the table every day.

He will reveal his recipe for coffee, which, along with a piece of black bread, is prepared and served to his hosts in the morning for lashings, but often also for dinner.

She will tell you what new things she has been cooking since her neighbor Marica moved to Stara Sava from Carinthia. She will not forget to mention the new recipe Sergio gave her. The boy from Primorska, who is staying with her, brought her the jota recipe from his mother.

He will tell you where you can eat this real working-class snack in Jesenice. And he will not let you leave the house until you have tasted his coffee.