| Vojsko – a plateau of peace, where the sky is closer and the views are richer. |
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 Vojsko is known as the highest lying village in the region of Primorska. It is strewn all over the Vojsko plateau on about 1,000 m above sea level, situated between the valleys of the Idrijca, the Kanomljica and Trebuša. After long winters the summer time in Vojsko offers genuinely natural, peaceful and fresh idyllic landscape covered with meadows and extremely rich flora in general. Mountain meadows and mixed forests cover the area in symbiosis. Homesteads and holiday houses are sometimes several kilometres apart.  Here and there you can still find typical large farmhouses with
interesting elements of traditional local architecture. The core of the
village has formed in 'Planina' around the parish church of St. Joseph
dating from the 17th century. The local cultural society and the Centre
of curricular and extracurricular activities are the main driving
powers of the cultural life in the village.The main attention of the visitors to the plateau of Vojsko is drawn to the picturesque precipitous Gačnik, the Hudournik, the memorials of the National Liberation War and foremost the Partisan Printing Shop Slovenija. Gačnik is an extremely interesting and very mysterious ravine under the plateau with numerous waterfalls, water channels,  rapids and pools,
which have attracted brave explorers for ages to find their way down or
up this gorge. It springs at the farm Krpcija and first runs along the
plateau as a peaceful and idyllic brook, but then immediately rushes
down the steep slope and descends for 800 m in the length of only eight
kilometres where it flows into the green brook Trebuščica.The most magnificent viewpoint on the far western side of the plateau is the Hudournik (1,148 m), steeply above the village Oblakov Vrh which connects the valley of Kanomlja with Hotenja and Trebuša. At this point views of the regions of Cerkno and Tolmin, the Julian Alps with the Triglav and as far as the Italian Dolomites are at hand. There you can also see the deep and clearly evident furrow of the Idrija fault. Hikers and mountaineers are well awa  re of the fact that Vojsko is also
included in the Slovene Mountain Path. In the wider Vojsko area there are several monuments and memorials to the cruel World War II era, when the plateau and its population granted strong to the national liberation movement. Unfortunately the local population suffered badly for its support to the partisan movement, because the main part of the village was burnt down by the enemy forces. The last German offensive in spring 1945 caused the most casualties, therefore the monumental burial ground was arranged at Vojščica, where 305 people are buried. Events: The local holiday – June 23, remembering the Italian arson of the village in 1943 Jacob's Sunday – July 25, people of Vojsko who live elsewhere return to their home village |