Closing event of the cross-border project Ljubka's Trail

On Wednesday, 17th December, 2025, the cross-border project Ljubka's Trail, funded by the European Union within the framework of Interreg projects, was concluded with the symbolic unveiling of a monument dedicated to Pavlina Pajk, the first Slovenian female novelist. The project is a cross-border cultural-tourist trail dedicated to the poet and cultural mediator Ljubka Šorli – who lived in Gorizia for many years and in her poems praised the Gorizia landscape – as well as eight other female writers who left their mark on the Gorizia region.
In the Ljubka's Trail project, the Research Centre for the Humanities of the University of Nova Gorica collaborated through the preparation of materials and other activities with the Forum of Slavic Cultures, the lead partner of the project, and the Lojze Bratuž Cultural Centre. Ljubka's Trail unites the European initiatives of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe and the European Capital of Culture GO! 2025 Nova Gorica – Gorizia.
The attendees were welcomed with an introductory speech by the head of the Research Centre for the Humanities of the University of Nova Gorica, Prof. Dr. Katja Mihurko, and the project was also presented by the director of the Forum of Slavic Cultures Dr. Andreja Rihter, the project manager at the Forum of Slavic Cultures Mateja Jančar, and researcher Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ivana Zajc (RCH UNG). Dr. Rihter expressed her wish that students and other people would regularly walk Ljubka's Trail, read the literature, and thus breathe life into this region from Tolmin to Gorizia.

Dr. Maja Bovcon