The name Podbrdo is a fused prepositional phrase that has lost its case inflection, from pod 'under' + brdo 'hill', thus referring to the local geography.[4]
History
The settlement was founded in the 16th century by German-speaking settlers from Tyrol, but the area was settled earlier.
There are also many 19th-century houses, a monument to the workers that died during construction of the railway tunnel, and memorials to the uprising against fascism (between World War I and World War II, when Podbrdo, then named Piedicolle, was part of Italy).
Natural heritage
Podbrdo is surrounded by many attractive mountains such as Slatnik (1589 m), Lajnar (1549 m), Bača Peak (Vrh Bače, 1281 m), Črna Prst (1844 m), Kobla (1498 m), and Porezen (1622 m).
The sunny side of Črna Prst has attracted botanists for more than 200 years. In the mountain meadows it is possible to find a number of rare species: