Thursday Doors 3/2/22: Prekmurje

Prekmurje is the flat, Pannonian, NE region of Slovenia in the head of the chicken if you look at the map. I was there in 2019 and still haven’t showed all of its doors. And there is a drive-by of Austrian doors too.

This is Slovenia. A reminder: There is Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the east, and Croatia to the south.

That summer day in 2019 amore and I drove to the fuchsia Prekmurje where a friend from my student days waited to show us around. We had a lovely day that resulted in three Thursday Doors post so far:

• Villa Moj mir (“My peace”) in Fokovci
• A beautiful church and shop in Pertoča
• Lendava Castle last week.

Several doors have remained to be showed and I’m going to do it now. I was reminded of them when going through the photos of that day for my current public art series for Marsha’s challenge (PPAC).

So the first door below is of the lift that took us to the top of the interesting Vinarium Tower in Lendava, which I showed you in full in my last PPAC post and from which you can see four countries.

In the featured photo there is the front door of the peculiar Lendava Cultural Centre which you will see in full in my upcoming PPAC post this weekend. And trust me, it is quite a reveal.

At the end of today’s post there is a brief drive-by through Austria with some blurry doors of Bad Radkersburg, since it was closer this way to reach Gornja Radgona, its twin border town in Slovenia, where my friend is from. The two towns are joined by the bridge over the Mura river, which I will show in an upcoming public art post as well.

Don’t you love the European Union and its lack of border control? It’s almost like we are all together and all the same (right…).

Going down.

Photobombed.

Near the tower. Would a door like this be a good material for the writing challenge?

The church gate looked interesting.

I love this scene but we were hurrying. The only photo I took.

Lendava Cultural Centre with a theatre and concert hall, built between 1995 and 2004.

Its interior is quite peculiar and… very wooden. But you should see its exterior!

Another wooden one and a window on the inside.

A nice Lendava door.

Two more with a barrel and the wrong beer advertised.

See, this is already Austria. It says Zentrum.

The day was ending and it wasn’t a good time to stop and do a proper doorscursion.

Bad Radkersburg is pretty.

I was clicking away to remember to stop another time.

Terrible shot but pretty colours.

A promising courtyard.

A grand building from 1896.

Just a regular Austrian home.

And this is Gornja Radgona in Slovenia. She has a cat.

For Thursday Doors challenge hosted by Dan at No Facilities

This day in my blogging history

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  2016: When I thought it would be a good idea to join Monochrome Madness

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  2016: Fleeting time

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  2018: February 2017 in 12 images with some animal friends. As I wrote: The only other people appear in artwork. Or on blogs. I must like it this way.

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  2019: Lines of trees from here and there with a poem entitled Vanish:

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  Vanish, you mannish radishes
   and all these collapse.
   In Italian
   radici are roots 
   holding up these trees
   but add a ch*
   and they are good for salad.
  
  *radicchio = Italian chicory

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