PRIMARY SCHOOLFRANCE PREŠEREN

KRANJ

Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a coastal Alpine country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy on the west, the Adriatic Sea on the southwest, Croatia on the south and east, Hungary on the northeast, and Austria on the north. The capital of Slovenia is Ljubljana.Slovenia became independent in 1991. Slovenia is a member of the European Union, the Council of Europe and NATO.

The municipality of Kranj is the economic, commercial, traffic, educational and cultural centre of Gorenjska. Kranj is the fourth biggest city in Slovenia and it covers an area of 148 km² and the highest mountain is Storžič (2132m). Kranj is located on the crossroads of important traffic routes, which lead from northern Europe towards the Adriatic Sea, and from Western Europe towards the East. The city developed on a conglomeratic prominence by the confluence of the 30m deep riverbeds of the Sava and Kokra, the river passage on the crossing flows longitudinally along the river Sava and transversally towards Jezersko, Ljubelj and Škofja Loka. The city is located a distance of 7 km from the International Airport Brnik – Ljubljana.

Panoramic picture of our school in Kranj.

France Prešeren (December 3, 1800 - February 8, 1849) was a Slovenian poet. His name is sometimes Germanized as "Franz Prescheren".He is considered to be the leading poet of Slovenian poetry, acclaimed not only nationally or regionally, but also according to the standards of developed European literature. Prešeren was one of the greatest European Romanticists. His fervent, heartfelt lyrics, intensely emotional but never merely sentimental, have made him the chief representative of the Romantic school in Slovenia.The seventh stanza of Prešeren's poem Zdravljica (A Toast) has been the Slovenian national anthem since 1991. His poems were translated into several languages; as well, he often wrote in German.

The area of the river Sava

Observing the analysis in a waste water treatment plant laboratory