Ines Unetic

• PhD
• Research Assistant at University of Ljubljana

Throughout the history people incorporated designed gardens in their closest living environment. They shaped their environment in such a way as to make it more useful, pleasing, and nicer. The old ancient civilization already created gardens that amazed anyone visiting the city-a good example are the great cities of Mesopotamia with hanging gardens...

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Enlightenment in Carniola influenced the development of interest in scientific approaches to designing nature, which were adopted to a greater or lesser extent by many Carniolan intellectuals. In Carniola, this circle of intellectuals gathered around patron Baron Sigmund Zois, who did not remain indiff...

The author discusses the multifaceted nature of cultural landscape and the human perception. We are usually not aware of the significance of this multifaceted nature. By studying scientific publications and certain statutory provisions in the field of environmental conservation, the author wanted to examine the diversity of the term cultural landsc...

In the late 18th and early 19th century, the collecting of exotic plants became a fashion that took hold of European courts, and was followed by many noblemen, intellectuals, gardeners and others. It was not only popular to grow new plants in gardens, collecting them in herbaria or illustrating and enumerating them in catalogues, but was also impor...

V poznem 18. in zgodnjem 19. stoletju je zbiranje tujih rastlin postalo moda, ki je zajela evropske dvore ter posledično številne plemiče, intelektualce, vrtnarje in druge. Nove rastline so tako gojili v oblikovanih vrtovih, zbirali v herbarijih in navajali v katalogih ali jih dajali upodabljati. V tem času ni bilo pomembno le samo zbiranje rastlin...

In the Middle Ages, a church was built in the bay where today's settlement Ankaran is located, and this church was the reason for the establishment of the Benedictine monastery S. Nicolo d'Oltra. The church was initially dedicated to S. Apollinaire, but after 1072, when it became a part of the Venetian Benedictine monastery S. Nicola del Lido its p...

A mid-18th century plan depicting the border between the Austrian Empire and the Venetian Republic, now kept in the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia, shows the schematic designs of two garden plans near the town of Cervignano. The ornamental gardens of villa Bolani and villa Saziletto have a design that is typical of the Friuli region. As Friul...

There was not always a market square behind the Bishop’s Palace in Ljubljana. In the sixteenth century, this space was occupied by a garden that was reshaped into a space for market stalls as early as the seventeenth century. The prince-bishops Count Ernst Amadeus Attems and Count Karl Johann von Herberstein tried to appropriate the space as dioces...