Črna na Koroškem (575 m.) is a peaceful, picturesque village in the Upper Meža Valley, where the landscape spreads from a narrow basin-shaped valley into many small valleys at the foot of the high Karavanke Mountains and the Kamniško - Savinjske Alps. In the heart of the old village, first mentioned already in 1137, a visitor in welcomed by ST. Ožbolt'c Church and the Monument of Killed Combatants; he latter is the work of a famous Slovene architect Jože Plečnik. A neatly arrange open - air collection relates to 300 years of mining. Under Peca ancestors used to dig ore, char wood, build forges, open grounds of one rich with lead and zinc as well as establish smelters. Despite the fact that nowadays mining belongs to history, there are many places to remind us of he old times. We can visit the open - air mining collection or a tourist mine - the Museum Podzemlje Pece (The Peca Underworld) in the nearby Mežica, where we can give vent to our curiosity taking a ride on a old mine train. A permanent ethnologic collection, located in the centre of the village, reveals the residential culture and the work of local inhabitants in the past.