Škofja Loka

At the meeting of the Selška and Poljanska Sora rivers, Škofja Loka grew beneath a castle in the estates of the bishops of Freising. Emperor Otto II granted the surrounding valleys and plain to Bishop Abraham in 973, and a new town later developed at the confluence. Its market and castle made it the center of a church lordship whose lands stretched across the neighboring valleys.

In 1511 a violent earthquake damaged the town and destroyed the tower on Krancelj Hill. Its citizens sent Bishop Philip a report of the destruction, and Škofja Loka was rebuilt. Two centuries later the town's Capuchin friars organized Passion processions depicting Christ's suffering. Father Romuald Marušič wrote and revised a Slovene dramatic text for the procession between 1715 and 1727, preserving a remarkable record of the town's religious theater.