Triglav National Park
The Triglav National Park (Slovenian: Triglavski narodni park ) is the only national park in Slovenia. It is located in the Julian Alps in northwestern Slovenia, on the border with Italy and Austria, and has a size of 83,807 ha
1908 was first proposed to protect the Triglav region more sustainable. In 1924, then first a 1,400 -acre valley has been designated as " Alpine National Park ," which was somewhat enlarged in 1961 and was named National Park. Since 1981 there is the National Park in today's size and shape. The provisions of nature conservation are closely monitored in the core area of today's national parks. The park has 7000 km of marked and regularly maintained roads with inns and refuges.
29 430 ha in the core zone of the national park have the status of "wilderness partner " in the network of European Wildlife sanctuaries in the PAN Parks Foundation.
The National Park
The national park is named after the highest with 2,864 m mountain in Slovenia, Triglav, which lies almost in the center of the park. In the national park there are numerous glacial lakes, rock types dominated limestone. Of particular note are - in addition to the high alpine area - the valley of Soča and Sava with the Lake Bohinj ( Bohinj ), the largest permanent lake in Slovenia, which were able to maintain a very original landscape and architecture, and the wooded plateaus Pokljuka and Mežakla. Best-known legendary figure of the Triglav National Park is the Zlatorog, a chamois with golden horns. Around him entwines a traditional in various versions legend, where always love and betrayal, greed and destruction are the topics. Collected legend has parts of the Thuringian botanist and poet, Rudolf Baumbach, where many Slovenian writer, among other things, Julius Kugy, emulated. Statues of Gold Horns are at the Jasna Lake near Lake Bohinj Kranjska Gora and on.
Fauna
The fauna of the national park is rich in species. Besides the usual Alpine wildlife such as ibex, chamois, red deer and grouse occasionally roam the area brown bears, lynxes also live there. In the air, the golden eagle is visible. As venomous snakes, the sand and the adder are worth mentioning. Of the numerous endemic species is the Marmorataforelle that occurs in the Soča River and several other tributaries of the Adriatic Sea and is still threatened by the suspended during World War II brown trout in the inventory, particularly worthy of mention.
Flora
The flora of the national park is of importance. Caused a stir numerous endemic plant species in the botanists in the 18th century. Are known in the Triglav National Park, the ( violet ) Zois bellflower, the red Dolomite cinquefoil and yellow poppies and the Julian Alps Edelweiss. In the higher elevations above 2000 m in the shelter of pines grow, known as Almrausch Hairy Alpenrose and the Dwarf Alpenrose ( Ericaceae ).
Tourism
Tourist significant is for the area of the national park, which is crossed by a network of uniformly marked mountain paths, mountain climbing about on Svinjak. The Slovenian Alpine Club, where it maintains 32 cottages and cabins. In addition, the whitewater paddling is significant. The rivers Soča and Koritnica are a magnet for water sports enthusiasts, among other things due to some challenging whitewater sections.
To explore the interior of the park are suitable as starting points in particular those enumerated from north clockwise localities:
The Vintgar
Typical farm in the upper Trenta