The cemetery by the parish church in the old town centre was abandoned in 1798 and burials moved to a new cemetery outside the city walls. In the years immediately prior to the Second World War, burials at that cemetery ceased as well and in 1951 the cemetery was rearranged into a memorial park according to the design of the architects Marjan Šorli and Ruška Ogorevc. The most important monuments in the park are: the tombstone of poet Dr. France Prešeren dated 1852 (made by Ignacij Toman jr.), the tombstone of poet Simon Jenko (1873, made by Janez Vurnik), Majdič’s vault with marble relief “Resurrection” (1910, Ivan Zajc) and a memorial to the Bazovica victims and Vladimir Gortan shot in Pulj, which is one of the earliest memorials to the victims of fascism in Europe (1931).

Address: entrance from Gregorčičeva ulica or from Partizanska cesta, Kranj.

Tourist board Kranj

The Kranj house

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