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6.3 wwii-Related Memorial Practices and Dark Tourism

Figure 6.10
Solemn Laying of Flowers
at the Monument
in Plovanija

Figure 6.11 Participants Socialising after the Commemoration at the Monument
in Plovanija

case of Plovanija looks like a kind of food and drink party at the
monument, which is quite specific (Figure 6.11);
• there are two traditional religious events which attract people (also
pilgrimages): anniversaries of the execution of the blessed Miroslav
Bulešić (Pavlović, 2017) and blessed Francesco Bonifacio (Barnaba,
2016). According to Pavlović (2017), more than 1,000 believers were

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