The village of Volčji Grad boasts the most beautiful Karst portals, while at its eastern boarder wooden prefabricate tents have been erected several weeks ago.
"Nobody asked for our consent for the new settlement, nobody consulted the local people. We believe those wooden houses have no place in our settlement; nothing similar was ever built in the Karst areas, it is something that belongs to Velika planina," Aleš Štolfa, the president of the village community Volčji Grad, expressed their dissatisfaction.
The so-called glamping houses were erected by Goran Živec, a local from the Karst area. He said that he intends to sell the idea of Karst, and not to ruin the karst cultural landscape. "As Prešeren put it nicely more than a hundred years ago - a shoemaker should only judge shoes. Well, those who dislike the wooden houses can keep disliking them. I find nothing wrong with them from the aesthetic point of view," he replies.
The wooden houses are erected on an agricultural plot, while in the municipality of Komen setting residential objects, including prefabricated ones, on agricultural plots is forbidden, but Živec had already installed plumbing and electricity. The construction and agricultural inspectors are looking into the matter.
"Naturally, we have to take into consideration the wishes of the villagers, but I am not excluding the possibility that the situation might remain unchanged," the mayor of Komen Marko Bandelli explained, and emphasized that the municipality is mostly oriented towards tourism.
T. H., Irena Cunja, TV Slovenija; translated by G. K.