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conclude by reflecting on the heritage significance of
Summary
both schools as architecture and as institution in gener- studiauniversitatis
The article analyses the role of establishing education al: the first post-war school was initially a monument to
and constructing primary schools after World War II utopia, and then became a monument to the city’s post-
in Koper, along the north Istrian coast. This is the re-