ππ·πͺTHE GREEN GATE OF SLOVENIA STREET
The people of Slovenia Street can still access Croatia directly, but only by foot, using a pedestrian path that goes through the Croatian border checkpoint.
I preferred not to use that path: I didn't want to be bothered by some weirdos in uniform asking me IDs just because I have been crossing an international border multiple times in 5 minutes...
[note: Border tourists love and hate borders at the same time]
ππ·πͺTHE GREEN GATE OF SLOVENIA STREET
On Dec 26th 1990, the inhabitants of the four (4) houses in Slovenia Street in Samobor, found themselves on the "wrong" side of the Bregana river
They were Croatian, but the only way out of their street was through the new Slovenian Republic
So, their Slovenian neighbors decided to build the "Green Gate" (I invented the name myself), complete with barbed wire, to stop them crossing into the new country
ππ· Kod Kalina Bridge, in Bregana, Samobor
π This bridge had been open for centuries, with people crossing freely across the Bregana river (more like across the Bragana creek, really).
β Then in 1991 the bridge was closed, police were deployed to check whoever wanted to cross.
πͺπΊ Since 2023, it is open again. Not for cars, for some reason.
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