Museo etnografico della casa carsica – Kraška hiša
Karst rural house from the late 18th century in Repen, preserved with kitchen, bedroom and farm tools, showing rural life on the Karst.
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About the museum
The Karst house in Repen is a well-preserved example of spontaneous rural architecture of the Trieste Karst. It has no precise construction date but most probably dates from the last two decades of the 18th century; its present appearance dates from 1831, and the most recent works were carried out purely for conservation purposes.
The building is typical of Karst dwellings: an enclosed courtyard, the borjač, brings together the living quarters and the farm buildings, and stone is used everywhere for building and decoration, from the slab roof to the chimney, the well and the portal. A high wall shelters the courtyard from the bora wind.
The visit includes the kitchen, with the large open hearth, the hood and the wood-fired oven, and on the upper floor the bedroom and the attic, now used as exhibition space. In the farm rooms, tools and objects linked to viticulture, livestock farming and agriculture are on display, while the hayloft above the stables hosts temporary exhibitions. The house is run by the cooperative Naš Kras and every two years, in odd-numbered years, during the last week of August it serves as the symbolic groom’s house in the Nozze Carsiche (Kraška ohcet) festival.
Highlights
- Kitchen with open hearth, hood and wood-fired oven
- Bedroom and attic with displayed objects
- Tools for viticulture, livestock farming and agriculture
- Enclosed courtyard (borjač) with stone roof, well and stone portal
- The groom’s house during the Nozze Carsiche festival
Permanent exhibition
- La casa carsica e la vita contadina – Kitchen, bedroom, attic and farm rooms preserve furnishings, tools and objects documenting everyday life on the Karst in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Operated by
- Zadruga Naš Kras / Cooperativa Carso Nostro
- Visitors per year
- approx. 1,000
Admission & discounts
Admission is free.
Accessibility
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Kids & families
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Getting there & parking
Repen (Repentabor) lies in the municipality of Monrupino, on the Karst plateau, about 15 km from Trieste.
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Plan your visit
| Good to know | Outside the hours given, visits are arranged with the managers. |
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