The unrenovated Maribor

In among the  interesting cafes of Maribor you can still find signs of the old Yugoslavia. Near the large renovated square with its fresh new cobblestones is this old house with its peeling plaster and an old wooden door that looks as if it has not been varnished for a century.

Unrenovated house in Maribor

 If you walk into the door and along the courtyard inside you come to a narrow little yard with washing hanging on pulleys. It is old but swept clean and geraniums hang from the small balcony above. Past the washing is a forlorn but romantic garden lane with a little path through scattered leaves and a set of stairs that leads to the houses up the hill behind.

Old but tidy

Back garden of unrenovatd house

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