Society Mercator confirmed the rumuors, that they bought part of the realeastate proprety, in which work the Slovenian discotheque Ambasada Gavioli.

Mercator assures that the discotheque will stay open till the end of the year 2008. The best neighbour bought 1600 square meters large building and 10 thousand square meters of corresponding land. Both was property of society Evolution. Unnofiacial sources say that Mercator bought Ambasada for 7 million euros.

In early 1990’s well known Italian architect maestro Gianni Gavioli has been invited to collaborate on the development. Before even the first sketches were laid down, the maestro architect has spent over a month in Slovenian Istria, learning about its culture, architecture, legends while meeting with locals from various generations in the area. In 1994 works began on what developed to be the maestro’s life masterpiece, combining feel of the local cultures with stories of Jean Baudelaire, Alice in Wonderland, Romeo and Juliet. Due to its significance, the well respected IRWIN artist group, part of Neue Slowenische Kunst movement, suggested the name of the new venue to be Ambasada Gavioli (Embassy of Gavioli). The new entertainment complex opened in December 1995. Despite the initial optimism, based on fast development of independent Slovenia as an emerging cultural and economic power in the region as well as on the overall faith in positive future emerging from the global Rave movement at the time, the venue did not attract as much audience as expected from the start. 1996 thus represented a year of initial struggle for Ambasada Gavioli. Hard work and structural reorganization eventually started to attract attention of various cultural circles, national and international media and attracting ever wider audiences, resulting in Ambasada Gavioli already becoming recognized as one of world’s top 10 most prestigious and trendy electronic music venues in 1997 and one of top clubbing destinations in Mediterranean Europe.

Since 1995 when it opened, Ambasada Gavioli has been operating according to the ideological teachings of Slovenian-Australian philosopher, ideologist and visual artist Chiron Morpheus. In that regard, the territory of the AG premises had a status of a Pirate Utopia or a Temporary Autonomous Zone. Through the years, the territory and/or the venue of Ambasada Gavioli has been also regarded as Neuropa, Embassy of 3rd Europe, The Cathedral of Luxurious Colours (also “Ambassada dei miglaia colori” in Italian). Since 1995 when it opened, Ambasada Gavioli has become the focal point of the Electronic Music community in Slovenia, Northern Italy, Southern Austria and North-West Croatia, achieving almost a cult following appeal in the scene. In the cultural context many people see the venue and the movement it created as a display of new cultural strength of the independent Slovenia. The club was also intensely famed by the media due to its edgy provocative image, which has been carefully maintained by its Public Relations department, further reinforcing its futuristic.

Although the venue has attracted thousands of people on weekly basis and hosted main events of festivals such as Golden Drum European Advertising Festival, Microsoft Convention, Final Flash International Art festival, Enigmatica Open Air Festival; it sparked a fair amount of controversy in the local community due to over-population problems caused by high amount of visitors, sometimes calling for the closing of the venue or imposing limitations to the free movement of visitors after the events.

Big names played in the Embassy such as Supa DJ Dmitry , Sasha , Erick Morillo , David Morales , John Digweed , Tiësto , Sven Väth , Marshall Jefferson , Laurent Garnier , Carl Cox , Richie Hawtin , Jeff Mills , Timo Maas , Takkyu Ishino , Westbam , Boris Dlugosch… There is almost no big name that didnt took a visit.

Shame that such a club must close, and that a shop center will rise on its ruins.