Velika Planina Walking Group

Walkers leave the chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the Snows, built in 1938 by the Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik, above the collection of Slovenian herders' mountain huts in Velika Planina, on 26th June 2018, in Velika Planina, near Kamnik, Slovenia. Velika Planina is a mountain plateau in the Kamnik–Savinja Alps - a 5.8 square kilometres area 1,500 metres (4,900 feet) above sea level. Otherwise known as The Big Pasture Plateau, Velika Planina is a winter skiing destination and hiking route in summer. The herders' huts became popular in the early 1930s as holiday cabins (known as bajtarstvo) but these were were destroyed by the Germans during WW2 and rebuilt right afterwards by Vlasto Kopac in the summer of 1945.

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Walkers leave the chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the Snows, built in 1938 by the Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik, above the collection of Slovenian herders' mountain huts in Velika Planina, on 26th June 2018, in Velika Planina, near Kamnik, Slovenia. Velika Planina is a mountain plateau in the Kamnik–Savinja Alps - a 5.8 square kilometres area 1,500 metres (4,900 feet) above sea level. Otherwise known as The Big Pasture Plateau, Velika Planina is a winter skiing destination and hiking route in summer. The herders' huts became popular in the early 1930s as holiday cabins (known as bajtarstvo) but these were were destroyed by the Germans during WW2 and rebuilt right afterwards by Vlasto Kopac in the summer of 1945.