Vas () is a small village on the left bank of the
Kolpa River southwest of
Fara in the
Municipality of Kostel
The Municipality of Kostel (; sl, Občina Kostel) is a municipality in southern Slovenia. Its seat is the settlement of Vas. It is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. ...
in southern
Slovenia
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. The area is part of the traditional region of
Lower Carniola and is now included in the
Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.
History
The Vas–Fara volunteer fire department became a founding unit of the Kočevje municipal fire department on 28 August 1955.
Cultural heritage
There is a small
chapel-shrine
A wayside shrine is a religious image, usually in some sort of small shelter, placed by a road or pathway, sometimes in a settlement or at a crossroads, but often in the middle of an empty stretch of country road, or at the top of a hill or mo ...
in the settlement dedicated to the
Virgin Mary
Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother o ...
. It dates to the early 20th century.
Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 14011
References
External links
Vas on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Kostel
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