The Novo mesto municipality will pay a little more than € 80,000 for the investment, including tax. The first walkers will be able to use the stairway in autumn.

According to the municipality, the plan includes installing streetlights, fortifying the supporting walls and renovating sewerage in the area of ​​the street passage between the house numbered as 12 and 14 at Breg.

The renovation of a rather run-down concrete staircase is planned for August and will be carried out by the FA-ST construction company from Novo mesto.

The area of Breg, which stretches on the rocky south pier of Novo mesto as some sort of a picturesque train meandering above the Krka River along the line of the former medieval wall, was considered the poorest city district before the Second World War.

Its cramped and often wooden houses were mostly home to families of workers and craftsmen. Street sellers of fruit and vegetables also lived in that area, growing their produce under the houses on the Krka riverbank and living on measly income from its sale.

Mostly owing to private owners of houses and land in the past decades, Breg has undergone renovation and is no longer considered a degraded part of Novo mesto. It has praised by numerous writers and poets, and often depicted by painters and other visual artists.