Kostanjevica Monastery

The Kostanjevica Monastery with Annunciation Church stands on a 143 m (469 ft)-tall hill dividing the town of Nova Gorica and the settlement of Pristava.

In the next hundred years, a monastery was built next to the church, and the monastic chapel became an important site for pilgrims from Friuli and the Gorizia region.

Today, the library is named after Father Stanislav Škrabec, a renowned Slovene linguist from the 19th century who lived and worked in the monastery for more than 40 years.

In 1947, the border between Italy and Yugoslavia was set just a few hundred meters west of the monastery, and Kostanjevica became part of the newly established town of Nova Gorica.

In the 19th century, the crypt of the Franciscan monastery was used for the burial of members of the French House of Bourbon who went into exile after the July Revolution.