Inside Melania Trump’s home town

Last week, Melania Trump began calling Washington, D.C., home, giving the nation’s capital something in common with the small, hilly Slovenian town of Sevnica.

With a population of only 5,000, the town was mostly known for its red wine and dry sausages, The Washington Post’s Rick Noack reported last year. But that was before Melania became known to the world. “Melania Trump put the name of our town on the map of the world,” Mayor Srecko Ocvirk said last year.

“Melania made it from the small town of Sevnica…. By some, Melania is celebrated as a goddess,” Slovenian photographer Matic Zorman told In Sight. Zorman explored Trump’s home town and all the various things named after her while on assignment for The Post. Here’s what he found:

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