Dovžan Gorge

[3] The gorge is picturesque because of the six high stone pillars known as the Kušpergar Towers (Slovene: Kušpegarjevi turni), where a climbing area has been set up.

In the small settlement of Čadovlje is the Jamenšnik farm with a flax drying oven (Slovene: paštba) with the year 1766 carved on it; it is an example of unique Karawanks architecture and ethnographic heritage.

The Dovžan Gorge was protected as a natural monument in 1988 due to its status as a unique site of plant and animal fossils in rocks from the Paleozoic.

The picturesque gorge was formed by the Tržič Bistrica River cutting through various conglomerates, limestones, sandstones, and clays.

Due to gravity, this gravelly material repeatedly slid into the shallow sea, into which inland waters carried silt, sand, and clay.

Almost 300 million years ago, the Karawanks were under a shallow sea, and rivers carried gravel, sand, and clay from the land, which later formed conglomerate.