Velenje, Slovenia. From 1981 to 1990 the town was called Titovo Velenje.
Tito Square in Velenje. Velenje boasts the highest statue of Josip Broz Tito (10 m) the work of A. Avgustincic.
Josip Broz Tito was the leader of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1945 until his death in 1980.
During WW II, Tito organised the anti-fascist resistance movement known as the Yugoslav Partisans. Later he was a founding member of Cominform, but resisted Soviet influence, and became one of the founders and promotors of the Non- Aligned Movement. He died on May 4, 1980 in Ljubljana.
Relations with the United States and Western European nations were generally cordial.
Josip Broz Tito received many awards and decorations both from his own country and from other countries.
Some of them are: Order of Leopold - highest military order of Belgium; Order of Elephant - highest order of Denmark; Medaille militaire (France) ... (Data from Wikipedia).
A poem says:
Tito,
thy name
is just another word for eternity ...
House of culture, Velenje.
House of culture, detail. Velenje.
Names of victims of fascism from Velenje region.
Memorial to the victims of fascism. Velenje.
Socialist modernism. Velenje.
Velenje. Slovenia.
Block of flats. Velenje. Slovenia.
The town was growing quickly ...
... people from all parts of Yugoslavia were coming to Velenje and settle there.
Velenje is a modernist town, mainly built during the Tito reign. It was the pride of the whole Yugoslavia.
Velenje. Slovenia. See: http://www.mp.gov.si/fileadmin/mp.gov.si/pageuploads/2005/PDF/publikacije/Crimes_committed_by_Totalitarian_Regimes.pdf
The old Velenje church of Saint Mary of Carmel.
The Velenje castle on the hill above the town, first mentioned 1270.
The cat on the way up to the castle.
Entrance of the castle.
The castle, in 1957 it was turned into a museum. Velenje.
The castle Velenje.
View of the town from the castle. Velenje.
View of the town from the castle.
The castle. It houses a museum with ten permanent museum and gallery collections as well as periodical exhibitions.
The well in the castle yard.
In 1971 Frantisek Foit, a Czech painter, who had spent more than two decades in Africa, donated to Velenje about 1400 items of African art.
African art. (From the Foit collection).
African art. (From the Foit collection). More pictures at: http://photosfromslovenia-cita.blogspot.com/
Ciril Cesar. Statue of an old man. (From the collection of sculptor Ciril Cesar).
Ciril Cesar. Statues. (From the collection of sculptor Ciril Cesar).
Tone Kralj. Scene from the WW II in Slovenia. (From the collection of the 20th century Slovenian art).
France Mihelic. Musicians. (From the collection of the 20th century Slovenian art).
Kiar Mesko. Crucifixion (1968). (From the collection of the 20th century Slovenian art.)
Janez Bernik. Throne (1970). (From the collection of the 20th century Slovenian art).
Lojze Perko. A rural scene from a village near Cerknica, featuring a folk custom at the time of carnival festivities. (From the collection of painter Lojze Perko).
Compassionate.( Wooden statue from St. Florian church near Sostanj, first half of 15th century).
Characteristic image of those times ... (From the collection When Velenje became a town).
Communism. (From the collection When Velenje became a town).
Do you still remember, comrades ...? (From the collection When Velenje became a town).
Buildings were growing like mushrooms after rain. (From the collection When Velenje became a town).
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia the new center of Velenje was opened on September 20, 1959. (From the collection When Velenje became a town). More pictures at: http://photosfromslovena-cita.blogspot.com/
No comment. (From the collection When Velenje became a town).
Honour and power to labour! (From the collection When Velenje became a town).
Let heroes of struggle be followed by heroes of labour! (From the collection When Velenje became a town).
