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AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE IRON CURTAIN
to reach their barracks much faster from the town than the Yugoslavian
guards, making less of a necessity to house any more than a small number
of soldiers here.
Patrolling the city
Evidence of military and border police surveillance is also visible in the
urban areas of the study area. The absence of structures near the border also
demonstrates surveillance infrastructure. This is apparent on the former
Yugoslavian side of the border in the town of Nova Gorica where a strip of
land, directly east of the border to Italy, has been kept open within this
urban area. Some of these strips followed former roads as well as a disused
railway track of the former Transalpine Railway. Keeping an area open
directly by the border by preventing any construction here made illegal
crossing more difficult and helped to facilitate the patrolling of the border.
These long, former patrolling tracks have now been made into cycle paths
stretching almost the entire length of the town (Figure 28).
Figure 28: Cycle path along the
border between Gorizia and
Nova Gorica. Borderline runs
along the brick wall to the left of
the path.
Photo: Anna McWilliams 2008.
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