St Martin's Church is set back slightly from the village into the hillside. In 1981, wall paintings dating from the early second half of the 18th century were discovered there; they are unique because of their bilingual inscriptions.
The cemetery is further up the hill on which the church stands. There is not a single tombstone with a Slovene inscription, only the tombstone of the partisan fighters bears a bilingual inscription, but even then only since 1981, when it was restored by the Association of Carinthian Partisans. The partisan grave is being looked after in an exemplary manner by Austrian comrades, the locals. In a place of honour in the centre of the cemetery, five partisan fighters are commemorated by a monument made of natural rock with an inscription carved on it:
FIVE PARTISANS ARE RESTING HERE, WHO FELL
IN NOVEMBER 1944 IN THE FIGHT AGAINST FASCISM.
THREE UNKNOWN BY NAME
GRABNER OŽBALT *3. 7. 1925
MLAČNIK BOŠTJAN *20. 1 . 1924
Location:
The unusually beautiful Carinthian village of Šmartin na Dholici / St. Martin am Techelsberg is situated north of Poreče ob Vrbskme jezeru / Pörtschach am Wörthersee, on the slopes of the Galina Mountain, about two kilometres from the motorway, already quite high up on the bank.