See Green Promenade along Vegova Street, Ljubljana, Slovenia (UNESCO Site)

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Running along the ditches of the former medieval walls of the Novi trg, was designed by Jože Plečnik as an important cultural axis, along which there are the buildings of the University, the former Realka secondary school, the Music Society, and the National and University Library. The Vegova Street is part of Plečnik’s idea of a city feature running from the Trnovo Church along the Emonska to the Trg francoske revolucije and further to the Kongresni trg monumentally ending in the Južni trg, which was, in fact, never built. It took Plečnik almost 15 years to develop the street – he started by renovating the façade of the Music Society building in 1932, on the occasion of the first Slovenian music festival. In front of the building, he designed a park on the remains of the medieval wall, which served as a leitmotif in the street design. The park is somewhat raised above the street and runs all the way to NUK, where it ends at the monument to Gregorčič, on the Trg francoske revolucije. The park gives the otherwise busy street a celebratory and poetic atmosphere: raised above, it creates a hallowed entrance to cultural institutions and offers a resting area with a view of the street.

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