Today, Transalpina Square has become the emblem of the fall of borders.

But it wasn't always this way: in 1947, the new border between Italy and Yugoslavia was drawn, dividing the square in two. Crossed by the so-called "Gorizia Wall," the Transalpina became a symbol of the political and ideological separation between Western and Eastern Europe during the Cold War years: until 1954, barbed wire ran along the border, and the entrance to the train station did not open onto the square.

After 1954, the barbed wire was replaced by a fence consisting of a half-meter-high wall topped with concrete pillars strung with wire mesh. The outlying neighborhoods and the train station overlooking the square, assigned to Yugoslavia at the end of World War II, were thus separated from the rest of Gorizia, which remained Italian.

The city of Nova Gorica, or the new Gorizia, arose on Yugoslav soil, built close to the border to showcase the successes of the socialist model on which Yugoslavia was reborn after the war. Until 1991, the façade of the station boasted a red star and the Serbo-Croatian inscription "Mi gradimo socijalizam" (We build socialism).

There is an information point inside the Nova Gorica station:

KIT - Cross-border tourist and cultural information point Nova Gorica/Gorizia

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