Bovec | Žaga, Bovec |
The Friulian and German names indicate that the names may be derived from *Plitium or *Pletium, which could possibly be connected with the oronym Phligadia mentioned by Strabo or the place name Phlygades.
Chiusaforte borders the following municipalities: Dogna, Malborghetto Valbruna, Moggio Udinese, Bovec (Slovenia), Resia, Resiutta, Tarvisio.
In 2001 Cristofani's career was honored by the presentation of 3 volumes that compiled articles he published between 1966 and 1997 under the title Scripta Selecta: trenta anni di studi archeologici sull'Italia preromana, edited by Antonio Giuliano, Salvatore Settis, and Fausto Zevi.
Guido Bastianini, Trenta testi greci da Papiri letterari e documentari, a cura di M. Manfredi, no. 4 (Florence: 1983), pp. 10-11.
On the Slovenian side, the road No. 203 runs downhill to Log pod Mangartom and further to Bovec.
Because both Italy and Slovenia are members of the European Schengen area, skiers are able to freely cross the border between Italy and Slovenia, effectively merging the Sella Nevea and Bovec ski resorts into one large ski resort covering both sides of the Canin mountain.
Trenta means "thirty" in some of the Romance languages, including Italian and Catalan.
A miners' church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary of Loreto, stands above the settlement on the way to Vršič.