Monrupino

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Monrupino
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Monrupino (Italy)
Monrupino
Country Italy
region Friuli Venezia Giulia
Coordinates 45 ° 43 '  N , 13 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 43 '0 "  N , 13 ° 48' 0"  E
height 418  m slm
surface 12.7 km²
Residents 863 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 68 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 34016
prefix 040
ISTAT number 032002

Monrupino (German outdated: Reippen , Slovenian: Repentabor ) is an Italian municipality with 863 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region .

Monrupino Church

Monrupino consists of the three villages Fernetti (Slov. Fernetiči ), Col (Italian. Zolla ), Repen (Italian. Rupingrande ) and borders directly on the municipality of Sežana ( Slovenia ). The population mainly belongs to the Slovene-speaking minority.

Until Slovenia joined the EU , the Fernetti border crossing was one of the most important transit points for Italian goods exported to the Balkans . The direct connection to international road traffic has had a positive effect on the local economy .

Monrupino is still very traditional. Many well-preserved houses in the typical architectural style of the Karst (Italian: casa carsica , Slov. Kraška hiša ), where tourists can get an insight into the customs of the area and get to know agricultural tools and furniture from the previous century, testify to this. A special attraction is the Karst wedding (ital. Nozze carsiche , Slov. Kraška ohcet ) in summer, where bridal couples are married in the traditional Karst tradition.

The small fortified pilgrimage church of Monrupino from the 16th century is located on a hill in the municipality. The facility offers a wide panoramic view of the surrounding area in Italy and Slovenia.

The municipality, which belonged to Imperial Austria until 1918 , was opened up in 1906 by the Karst Railway , the extension of the Wocheiner Railway, with which a direct railway connection from Trieste to Villach and Salzburg was created. It has not been used for passenger traffic in the Monrupino area for decades, and rarely for cross-border goods traffic.

At the time of the Free Territory of Trieste , the place belonged to the so-called Zone A , until 2017 to the Province of Trieste .

Former rectory with the staircase on which there is said to be a footprint of the devil

Web links

Commons : Monrupino  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ Since 2003 , due to a municipal resolution, only the Slovenian place names Col and Repen are officially valid for Zolla and Rupingrande. Statuto di Monrupino (PDF; bilingual: Italian, Slovenian)