Prelože pri Lokvi (pronounced [pɾɛˈloːʒɛ pɾi ˈloːkʋi]) is a settlement south of Lokev in the Municipality of Sežana in the Littoral region of Slovenia.

Big Gradišče Hill is known locally as na Vročah and is the highest part of the Trieste–Komen Karst region.

The hills are covered by low Karst forest, including a high percentage of spruce, introduced in 1896.

[4] The name Prelože is a plural form contracted from the demonym *Predložane, in turn based on the prepositional phrase pred log 'in front of the wooded area'.

Folk tradition relates that the village originally stood 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) to the west at Merišče, where there are extensive moraines and the area is much more exposed to the bora wind.