Čufar Square

The people of Jesenice still socialise at Čufar Square, the town's social centre, to watch a performance at the Tone Čufar Theatre, take in the view of the Jesenice Grammar School, or visit the Jesenice Municipal Library.

Tone Čufar Theatre Jesenice

A witness to history and culture. The storyteller about the people of Jesenice who, in addition to their hard-earned daily bread, enjoyed tasting that which is food for the soul...

Jesenice's theatre and cultural activities date back to the 19th century. In 1889, the Reading and Singing Society was founded, and in 1897, the Catholic Workers' Society. After the First World War, there were about eighty societies in Jesenice (educational, theatrical, singing, performing, gymnastic, mountaineering ...). Rich theatrical activity dates back to 1910. It is known that the "Theatre Society" in Jesenice was known to be one of the most active acting families in Slovenia. The societies operated in different areas. Spatial dissatisfaction prompted the construction of two new significant buildings in the 1920s: the Sokolski dom, the current Partisan, and the Krekov dom, now known as the Tone Čufar Theatre. Krekov dom was designed and intended for theatre activities in 1929. It was solemnly blessed on September 8, 1930, as "Krek's educational centre". The centre was named after the Christian socialist Janez Evangelist Krek. Lively cultural activity took place in it until the Second World War. In 1985, a new facility was added. Radio Triglav, a cinema and a library moved into it. Both buildings were connected by a common entrance hall. The Tone Čufar Theatre celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1995, and in 1998 Jesenice celebrated the 100th anniversary of theatrical activity in Jesenice.

Jesenice Grammar School

Still painted in the colour of its youth, it remembers the bygone times in the stillness of the night. The primary school, the lower and higher grammar schools, the first world war, the first Yugoslavia, the second world war, and the second Yugoslavia. Now it peacefully breathes Slovenian air. It only becomes sad when it tries in vain to count all of the students who sang here: Gaudeamus igitur ...

It was built in 1914 to Rudolf Petz's design and is one of Jesenice's few remaining Art Nouveau buildings. The facade's rhombic stucco details are complemented by shallow relief images of boys symbolising science. It was built for the needs of a compulsory public school and later housed the lower and higher grammar schools until 1958. The building was renovated in 1994 and was then restored to its original green colour. Today, it is still a higher grammar school with a sports and European education department.