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3 unusual facts about Hrastovlje


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Scenes from the Book of Genesis also decorate the nave, images of the Apostles are painted in niches in the apse, with other saints and prophets as well as a Passion series and the journey and adoration of the Magi.

It is best known for the Church of the Holy Trinity, which contains a late-medieval Danse Macabre fresco.

The most famous is the 7 m sequence known as the Dance of Death on the south wall of the nave, representing people of all walks of life from kings and popes to beggars and babies being led by skeletons towards Death itself.


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