Furmanstvo v Vipavski dolini
Vozovi s konjsko vprego so bili do polovice preteklega stoletja poglavitno prevozno sredstvo. Ljudje, ki so s konjsko vprego prevažali tovor, so se imenovali furmani. Običajno so to bili kmetje, ki jim je furmanstvo predstavljalo dodaten zaslužek. Furman je moral imeti konja, voz in drugo potrebno opremo. Nekateri so prevažali tovor z voli, saj si konjev niso mogli privoščiti. Furmani so vozili vino in domače pridelke predvsem v Gorico in Trst, kot tudi v hribovite kraje. S Trnovske in Nanoške planote so prevažali predvsem les, oglje in led. Po letu 1950 je furmanstvo zamrlo, saj so glavnino prevoza lesa prevzeli avtoprevozniki. Konjske vprege so počasi izginile, nadomestili so jih traktorji in tovornjaki.
V spomin na furmanstvo, ki je potekalo tudi po tej cesti, so člani Kamnoseške skupine Manče v naravno kamnito steno vklesali relief konjske vprege. Svojevrsten kamniti relief z upodobitvijo para konj, vpreženih v voz s hlodi ter furmana in zavirača, je posvečen tako furmanom kot tudi gozdarjem in vsem tistim, ki so bili kakor koli povezani z delom v prostranih nanoških gozdovih.
Pri izdelavi šest metrov dolgega in dva metra visokega reliefa je sodelovalo 16 članov kamnoseške skupine, ki so v izdelek vložili več kot 3000 ur dela. Relief je začel nastajati v letu 2015 in je bil zaključen leta 2021.
Wagonry in the Vipava Valley
Until the past century, horse wagons were an essential means of transportation. People who transported goods by means of horse-drawn wagons were called wagoners. They were often farmers who sought additional income by putting their wagons to good use. A wagoner required a horse and other necessary gear, while some utilized oxen since they couldn’t afford horses. Wagoners transported wine and produce from the Vipava Valley to Gorizia and Trieste, and across the uplands as well, carting especially wood, charcoal and ice from the Trnovo and Nanos plateaus. Wagonry died out after 1950 as most of the wood transport was taken over by forest management service. Horse-drawn wagons gradually disappeared, replaced by motorized tractors and trucks.
To commemorate the local wagonry tradition once running along this very road, the members of the Manče stonecutters group chiselled an artistic relief of the horse wagon into living rock. The distinct stone relief with its portrayal of a pair of horses pulling a wagon of logs, the wagoner and brakeman, pays homage to the wagoners, the foresters and many others once busy with these activities in the sprawling forests of the Nanos Plateau.
The six-metres-wide and two-metres-tall carved relief involved the work of 16 members of the stonecutters group, which put over 3000 hours of work into their masterpiece. Work on the stone relief started in 2015 and was finished in 2021.