The Rural Village Obenetto/Dubenije

The name Dubenije derives from "dob" (oak): the locality is mentioned as early as the 14th century: "a. 1327 in Troncha in loco qui dicitur Obenet". The village (540 m above sea level) stands alone astride a steep ridge, crossed by a path that the buildings face, which rises with increasingly steeper slopes, cutting longitudinally through the town. Halfway along, there is a public fountain with a large basin made of adjacent stone blocks. The building structure consists of houses and cottages that, in the upper part of the village, are backed by high retaining walls made of stone. An interesting building is set in the center of the village features two residential units on three floors around a loggia with external stairs and elegant wooden balconies supported by a carved wooden corner pillar. At the end of the town, on the wall of a house, a sacred subject trilogy is painted (perhaps the work of the wandering painter Jàcum Pitor - Jakob Malar): in the center is the Holy Family with perhaps Saint Florian above extinguishing a fire, on the sides Saint Martin on horseback and perhaps Saint Wolfgang the bishop. The image is framed with floral motifs and bears a Slovenian inscription at the bottom. Nearby is a row of rustic houses (kaste) dating back to the 17th century: buildings consisting of a stone base and an elevated floor with interlocking chestnut planks and a steeply pitched roof covered with straw, reproducing the oldest forms of Slovenian tradition.