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Slovenia: GeoCaching in Zasavje

With Nada we visited her family in Hrastnik, but since we left a bit early, we were able to find a few geocaches in some interesting locations.

Main entrance to the cave Kotredež, from where they excavated 11738791 tonns of brown coal (till 1954).

On 29 November 1952, a mighty monument was discovered Trbovlje in front of the old mine restaurant, where roads from all urban settlements intersect. The figure in the middle represents the confrontation with Orjuna, the woman with her child in her lap represents mining strikes and the social struggle, while the rifle fighter represents wartime.

An urn in front of the monument decorated with relief scenes from the lives of miners.

View to Trbovlje

The Ojstro Cave is an abandoned mine shaft for the extraction of coal in Hrastnik, part of the Trbovlje Coal Mine system, which operated between 1892 and 2007.

GeoCaches found (all received a visit by trackable items "Siebasiach's Figure Eight Geocoin", TB735HE, "Sanban s1", TB42DJW and "Julia ud Zweeenes 100000 Caches", TB35GHN):
- Rudnik premoga v zapiranju Zagorje, GC6R0D4
- Spomenik, GC7XPF7
- Delavski dom Trbovlje, GC7XPEA
- pri psih, GC7H0P1
- Be Active in Hrastnik, GC7A0BE