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Tito’s Bridge with a looming mega-mall in the background.
If I had to pick one picture that kind of captures Slovenia for me, this would be it. In the foreground you can see Tito’s bridge, a drab socialist construction from the year 1963. It spans the river Drava and leads (inexorably, one is tempted to say) to Europark, a hulking, brightly-lit, 95.000-square-meter temple of consumerism built around the turn of the millennium.
It’s almost like revisiting the Cold War: two massive constructions facing each other down, nose-to-nose. On the one hand, the cold, ugly and strictly utilitarian bridge. And on the other, the colorful and beloved center of endless diversion.
And never the twain shall meet.
