The heart of Dol is undoubtedly its church, dedicated to St Margaret. First mentioned in 1262, its current baroque incarnation dates to 1753 and it is quite the looker. A respectfully elegant cemetery surrounds it, containing the grave of Janko Moder. Moder was a celebrated Slovene editor and translator who spent nine months in prison at the end of World War Two after falling foul of the government. The church grounds also houses a number of monuments to lives lost in numerous wars. In order to visit the inside of the church you must ring ahead.