Bodešče () is a village on the left bank of the
Sava Bohinjka River in the
Municipality of Bled
The Municipality of Bled (; sl, Občina Bled) is a municipality in northwestern Slovenia in the Upper Carniola region. The seat of the municipality is the town of Bled, located on the shores of Lake Bled. The area is a popular tourist destination ...
in the
Upper Carniola
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region of
Slovenia
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.
Name
Bodešče was attested in written sources as ''Podesich'' in 1185, ''Fodesich'' in 1253, ''Vodaschize'' in 1287, and ''Bodoschichk'' in 1368, among other spellings.
Church
The village church is dedicated to
Saint Leonard and was allegedly built on the site of an ancient fort. The church has a covered porch, a square
nave
The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...
, and a narrow
Gothic
Gothic or Gothics may refer to:
People and languages
*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
star-vaulted
presbytery, dating to the mid-15th century. The
church tower has an
onion-shaped Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
wooden crown.
Slovenian Tourist Board site
References
External links
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Bodešče at Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Bled
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