Low plastered houses along a stepped stone canal embankment, a birch lined bridge and a twin spired church.
What Trnovo looks like
Trnovo sits along the Gradaščica, a narrow stream walled in stone on both banks. Plečnik's bridge crosses it on an iron concrete arch, two rows of birch trees running down the middle of the roadway and splitting pedestrians from the road. The parish church's twin spires rise directly behind the bridge, pale stone towers each topped with a dark pyramidal cap and a clock face.
Low plastered houses in cream and pale ochre line the side streets, one and two storeys under red tiled pitched roofs. A handful of taller apartment blocks from the early 1980s stand on Karun and Ziherlova streets, set back from the older building line. keeps its older houses under a run of mature chestnut trees along the water.
East of the bridge the bank drops in wide stone steps to the stream, with benches and weeping willows along the top edge. A vegetable garden still works one plot near the water behind wooden fencing, rows planted close to the fence line.
The Slovenian film Jebiga used this embankment for several of its outdoor scenes during a 1998 shoot, alongside a bar a few streets away. No other sourced production credit names a specific Trnovo street or building.
Shot in Trnovo
The Slovenian film Jebiga shot several outdoor scenes on Plečnik's Trnovo embankment during its 1998 production. The film follows a group of friends through a Ljubljana summer, much of it set around a bar a few streets away and on the terraces here.
Jebiga, 2000
Outdoor scenes were shot along the stepped stone embankment, among the terraces that run beside the water here. The embankment plays itself, the same stretch of Gradaščica bank a visitor can walk today.
What Trnovo can double for
Klein Venedig in Bamberg, Germany
Low fishermen's cottages sit directly on a narrow river bank, close in scale to Trnovo's own waterside houses. A punt or rowing boat on the water helps sell the angle. The half timbered upper storeys and window boxes are more decorated than Trnovo's plain plastered walls, so tighter frames work better than a wide establishing shot. Try searching half timbered river cottages now.
Narrow cobbled streets of low brick houses sit a few minutes from Ghent's historic core, a similar relationship to Trnovo's own position near Ljubljana Castle. The brick is darker and the streets narrower than Trnovo's plastered blocks, so a daytime exterior reads best with the canal kept out of frame. Try searching narrow brick houses now.
Petite France in Strasbourg, France
Low houses line a canal with footbridges much as Trnovo's own stream does, though the half timbering here is more ornate than Trnovo's plain facades. Crowds of visitors are a constant in daylight, so an early morning call is worth planning for around the footbridges. Try searching canal houses with footbridges now.
