Finžgar's birth house is a house in the village of Doslovče

Doslovce

Doslovče is one of ten villages in the Žirovnica municipality in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. It is best known as the birth place of the Slovene writer Fran Saleški Finžgar. His house has been a small museum since 1971.- External links :**...

 in the Žirovnica

Žirovnica

Žirovnica is a municipality in Slovenia. It is located in the historic Upper Carniola region, on the southern slope of the Karavanke mountain range, close to the border with Austria...

 municipality in Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

. It is the house where the Slovene writer Fran Saleški Finžgar

Fran Saleški Finžgar

Fran Saleški Finžgar was a Slovene writer, playwright, translator and Roman Catholic priest.Fran Saleški Finžgar was born into a poor peasant family in the Upper Carniolan village of Doslovče , in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire...

 was born in 1871. As well as a museum about the writer, it is a museum of rural architecture and living during the late 19th century. It was converted into a museum in 1971, at the centenary of the writer's birth. It is fitted with original furniture from the period, some from the actual house and some gathered from elsewhere.

Administratively it is part of the Upper Carniola Museum from Kranj

Kranj

' is the third largest municipality and fourth largest city in Slovenia, with a population of 54,500 . It is located approximately 20 km north-west of Ljubljana...

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