At Medvode, Sava enters the Šmarno-gorska region and is joined by Sora.
At Medvode, the Sava is already quite wide in its flat course, but it has not yet lost its character as a bouncy mountain river. Why is Sava so fast and bouncy, an old story tells us:
Drava, Sava and Soča are sisters. They used to argue with each other about which one would be the first to run into the sea the next day. In the evening, Sava and Soča fall asleep, and the Drava just sleeps and soon lets its waters run quietly. When Sava wakes up in the morning, she notices that the Drava is already rolling towards the sea, so she too angrily descends in the hourly flow towards the sea.
But when Soča also wakes up and sees that the two sisters have beaten her, she burrows on the opposite side with the violent force of the mountain wall, furiously runs through the rocky gorges and reaches the sea first.
And it’s still like that today!
The Drava flows quietly and stealthily, the clear Sava roars, but both feed the Black Sea, and the Soča drums hourly through the narrow rocky gorges of the Goriška mountains into the Adriatic Sea.
Hence the popular saying:
Drava invaded the valley,
Sava poured water across the plain,
The Soča flows towards the south.
(Kelemina, Fables and tales of the Slovenian people, Celje 1930)
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