Lom is my home

The circular hiking trail, LOM IS MY HOME, runs through these villages and across colourful meadows, grasslands, pastures, and through cool forests on their edges. Information boards, placed along the trail, bring us closer to the past and the present-day life in this area.

There are no permanent watercourses in this karst area, however, you can find many sinkholes, abysses and hollow caves. There are several sites where the locals dug stone plates, which were used for roofing purposes. Even today, you can still admire the village church and the oldest preserved house which are covered with such stone plates. In this hilly countryside, crops were cultivated on small fields, while livestock was pastured on higher ground and in the forests.

Picturesque vistas open up along the trail. The church of St. Primus and Felician welcomes visitors on a slope in the centre of Kanalski Lom. Above Kanalski Lom, you can admire the Kolovrat ridge in the south-west direction, and even the Italian Dolomites if the weather is clear enough. From the ridge that stretches from Široko to Mt. Veliki vrh, and further to the hills above Lokovec, the view extends from the ridge of Mt. Kolovrat, across Kanin and the Tolmin-Bohinj Mountain chain to Mt. Porezen and other Idrija-Cerkno hills; at the Široko viewpoint, it is possible to admire them from up close with the help of binoculars.