A walk along Kidrič Street in Koper offers several points of encounter with Santorio’s heritage. This was one of the most important streets in Koper’s past, leading from the main harbor to the central square. In one of the houses (later replaced by other buildings) on the corner with Kette Street, Santorio is said to have been born in 1561. For this reason, the street long bore his name.
Continuing along it towards the square, we can also stop at the Regional Museum (the Belgramoni Tacco Palace), where visitors can already in the entrance hall admire the Santori family’s coat of arms. The museum also preserves a model of one of Santorio’s instruments. If we then turn into today’s Santorio Street, we arrive at the Servite monastery, located in the immediate vicinity of the Santori family residence. Family members were married in the monastery church, and later a funerary monument was erected there in Santorio’s memory. In his will, Santorio also expressed the wish that a requiem mass be celebrated for him there every year. The monastery was later converted into the town hospital, and afterwards into a maternity hospital.
