Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
( 041 775 127, 389 63 83; Trg Golobarskih Žrtev 1; meals from €15; 11am-10pm
Wed-Mon)
Opposite the Alp Hotel, the Summer Garden has pizza, grilled dishes and trout
at affordable prices. Its garden is lovely in summer - as it should be, given the name.
Plec Caffe
( 041 775 127; Trg Golobarskih Žrtev 18; 8am-1am Jul & Aug, 5pm-1am Sep-Jun)
This pleasant cafe in the heart of town attracts punters till the wee (for Bovec) hours year-
round.
CAFE
Information
Bar Kavarna
( 388 63 35; Trg Golobarskih Žrtev 25; 30min €1.50; 7am-11pm
Mon-Thu, 7am-midnight Fri & Sat, 8am-8pm Sun)
Nova KBM Banka
(Trg Golobarskih Žrtev 47)
Post Office
(Trg Golobarskih Žrtev 8; 8-9.30am, 10am-3.30pm & 4-6pm Mon-Fri,
8am-noon Sat)
Tourist Information Centre Bovec
(TIC; 388 19 19;
www.bovec.si
; Trg Golobarskih
Žrtev 8; 8.30am-8.30pm summer, 9am-6pm winter)
Has an ATM next door.
Getting There & Away
Buses to Kobarid (€3.10, 30 minutes) depart up to six times a day. There are also buses to
Ljubljana (€13.60, 3½ hours) via Kobarid and Idrija, and to Nova Gorica (€7.50, two
hours). From late June to August a service to Kranjska Gora (€6.70, two hours) via the
Vršič Pass departs four times daily, continuing to Ljubljana.
KOBARID
05 / POP 1250 / ELEV 234M
The charming town of Kobarid is quainter than nearby Bovec, and despite being surroun-
ded by mountain peaks, it feels more Mediterranean than Alpine, with an Italianate look
(the border at Robič is only 9km to the west).
On the surface not a whole lot has changed since Ernest Hemingway described Kobarid
(then Caporetto) in
A Farewell to Arms
(1929) as 'a little white town with a campanile in
a valley', with 'a fine fountain in the square'. The bell in the tower still rings on the hour,
but the fountain has sadly disappeared.
Kobarid was a military settlement during Roman times, was hotly contested in the
Middle Ages and was hit by a devastating earthquake in 1976, but the world will always
