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Divina
Divina ( hu, Nagydivény) is a village and municipality in Žilina District in the Žilina Region of northern Slovakia. History In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1325. File:Divina, pečať.jpg, Oldest seal of Divina village File:Lúky, pečať.JPG, Oldest seal of Lúky village, part of Divina Geography The municipality lies at an altitude between 355 – 910 metres (center of the village 550 meters) and covers an area of 21.881 km2. It has a population of about 2384 people. Monuments and Memorials Church of St. Andrew Late baroque church, built between 1773 and 1779 by John Nepomuk Szunyogh. The church is registered in the Central List of the Slovak Memorial Fund under the number 1333/1. Statue of St. John of Nepomuk in Divina The Statue of St. John of Nepomuk is registered in the Central List of the Slovak Memorial Fund under the number 1334/2. It is a sandstone sculpture from 1796 standing on a stone base. The project of restoration of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marek Sobola
Marek Sobola (born 3 July 1981) is an authorised landscape architect, professional gardener and heraldic artist from Slovakia. Biography Sobola was born in Žilina, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) into a family from Lalinok and Divina. He spent the first years of his life in Divina. Sobola studied landscape architecture at the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra (SUA) at the Horticulture and Landscape Engineering Faculty. He graduated in 2004 and began working in own studio. Alongside the architect's practice he continued doctoral studies at SUA at the Faculty of European Studies and Regional Development, the Department of Sustainable Development in 2004 – 2007. After finishing his Ph.D. study he again continued his studies at the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra at the Faculty of Arts as an historian for another five years. He works as a heraldic artist since 2015. His specialization is the Ecclesiastical heraldry in Missionary countries. Sobola has s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
