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Newest Review: ... of grass, a large building (a future shopping centre?) is coming up next to the road. The outskirts of Koper don't look attractive but suggest a busy and thriving workaday town. We reach the old town, eventually, and it is a pleasant contract to the nondescript commercial outskirts. Narrow alleyways twist up towards the central square and just like in Croatian Dalmatia, the whole place has a distinctly Italian feel to it (it was under a Venetian rule for several centuries) compounded by the fact that all the official signs are bilingual - the central square is, somehow incredibly, Titov Trg aka Piazza Tito. Whether Trg or Piazza, a very ... more

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Koper: The Curtain's Edge (1244 words)
by - written on 16/09/09 (Very useful, 26 readings)
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We leave Ljubljana by train to Koper, where we are going to catch a bus to Trieste. The train is, again, an old fashioned European type with compartments and we find one to share with only one other passenger, a serious looking young man seemingly engrossed in a book about astronomy. Slovenia has only about 50km of coast, and Koper is the only commercial port of note, located virtually on the Italian border and a scant 10 km from Trieste. The distance from Ljubljana isn't far either, but the train stops frequently and its route somehow meanders on the way and thus it takes over two hours to get there. But we don't mind: between Ljubljana and the ... Read the complete review

I'm not "kid"ding - goat island really is worth a visit! (1332 words)
by - written on 09/12/08 (Very useful, 329 readings)
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On my occasional visits to the Slovenian coast I had always avoided the town of Koper. I had acquired - from where I do not know - an impression that the town was not worth seeing, that the docks made it ugly and that it was essentially the town that serviced the prettier parts of the coast. This notion might have come partly from the fact that the bus and train station are situated on the edge of town and that a collection of car dealerships, large supermarket complexes and a fair bit of wasteground don't make for an inspiring introduction. This September while staying in nearby Izola, I spotted a booklet in the tourist information office that featured a ... Read the complete review

Koper (2456 words)
by - written on 29/11/04 (Very useful, 2698 readings)
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Poor Koper. Move this port to another location, and you wouldn’t see the cobbles for daytrippers. There would be busloads of all nationalities herded round the Praetorian Palazzo, elbowing and shoving each other as they climb the steps up the cathedral tower, jostling for a waterside table in overpriced fish restaurants, and spending tolars galore on coffee and cakes in cosy cafes. And why aren’t the narrow lanes of Koper’s old town thronging with scantily-clad camera-toters? Well, Koper suffers from what I call the “Trieste Syndrome”. If you’ve read my review of Trieste, you might remember that the reason that city is neglected by the tourist trade is because ... Read the complete review