The most evocative spot in Nova Gorica, and the reason the town exists at all. When the post-war border put Gorizia in Italy and left the Slovenian-speaking suburbs on the eastern side, Tito ordered a brand-new town built from scratch on this empty patch of land. The original station building — the Habsburg-era Transalpina station, formerly Italy's last stop before Austrian territory — now sits squarely on the border, with one façade in each country.
The square is laid out as a simple oval with the old station as its centrepiece. A mosaic in the pavement traces the former dividing line. It is an ordinary-looking place that carries an extraordinary amount of 20th-century history — the kind of spot you walk across in a minute but stand on for half an hour once you understand what it means.