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Ribnica Handicraft Centre
This is a great addition to the town – a centre tasked with preserving and promoting the areas longstanding handicraft traditions. The suha roba made in the region can be translated as dry goods, but that doesnt quite do justice to the finely crafted wooden and wicker implements (p
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Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia
This museum, housed in the 18th-century Cekin Mansion (Grad Cekinov), traces the history of Slovenia in the 20th century through multimedia and artefacts. Note the contrast between the sober earnestness of the communist-era rooms and the exuberant, logo-mad commercialism of the ind
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Boka Waterfall
With a sheer vertical drop of 106m (and a second drop of 30m), Boka is the highest waterfall in Slovenia – and its especially stunning in the spring, when snowmelt gives it extra oomph. Its 5.5km southwest of Bovec – you can drive or cycle to the area and park by the bridge, then w
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Church of the Assumption of Mary
The church at Nova Štifta, in the foothills of the Velika Gora 7km west of Ribnica, is one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Slovenia. Completed in 1671, the baroque church is unusual for its octagonal shape. The interior of the church, with its golden altars and pulpit, is
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Kozjansko Park
Established in 1999, the 206.5 sq km Kozjansko Park stretches along the Sotla River, from the border with Dolenjska and Bizeljsko in the south to Podčetrtek in the north. Named a Unesco biosphere reserve in 2010, the parks forests and dry meadows harbour a wealth of flora and fauna
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Wild Lake
A 3km trail called Pot ob Rakah follows the Idrijca River Canal from the Kamšt (an 18th-century waterwheel used by the mines) to Wild Lake, a tiny, impossibly green lake fed by a deep karst spring. After heavy rains, water gushes up from the tunnel like a geyser and the lake appear
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Kamnik Museum
Zaprice Castle, with towers, ancient stone walls and an interesting chapel, was built in the 16th century but converted a century later into a baroque manor house. Today it houses the Kamnik Museum, with dullish exhibits connected with Kamniks glory days and 18th-century furniture
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Snežnik Castle
Surrounded by parkland, the restored 16th-century Renaissance Snežnik Castle is one of the loveliest and best-situated fortresses in Slovenia.Entrance is via a 45-minute guided tour. The four floors are richly decorated with period furniture and portraits – the household inventory
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Olimje Minorite Monastery
The Minorite Olimje Monastery, 3km southwest of Podčetrtek, was built as a Renaissance-style castle in about 1550. Its Church of the Assumption contains 17th-century ceiling paintings in the presbytery, one of the largest baroque altars in the country and the ornate Chapel of St Fr
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Alpine Dairy Farming Museum
This museum in Stara Fužina, 1.5km north of Ribčev Laz, has a small collection related to Alpine dairy farming – look for it behind Gostilna Mihovc. The four rooms of the museum – once a cheese dairy itself – contain a mock-up of a mid-19th-century herders cottage, old photographs,
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Jakac House
The Dolenjska Museum administers Jakac House, which exhibits some of its 830-odd works by the prolific painter and local boy Božidar Jakac (1899–1989). The artist visited dozens of countries in the 1920s and 1930s, painting and sketching such diverse subjects as Parisian dance hall
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Žužemberk Castle
The mighty, 13th-century Žužemberk Castle perches photogenically on a terrace overlooking the Krka River. It was refortified in the 16th century, only to be all but flattened during air raids in WWII. Its towers have been partially reconstructed, and the Renaissance walls, the roof
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Dominican Monastery
Just past Sunny Park (Sončni Park) in Muzejski trg is the former Dominican Monastery, which contains the lapidary and archeological collections of the Ptuj Regional Museum . The monastery was built in 1230 but abandoned in the late 18th century when the Habsburgs dissolved the Cath
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Spodnji Trg
The main square to the east of Mestni trg was where the poorer folk lived in the Middle Ages; today it is used as a busy thoroughfare with admittedly not much to see – this may change, as town authorities plan a bypass that will take most car traffic off the road.The 16th-century G
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Lake House Museum
In the village of Dolenje Jezero you will find the Lake House Museum, with a 5m by 3m, 1:2500-scale working model of Lake Cerknica. It shows how the underground hydrological system actually works in a 1¼-hour demonstration and video about the lake in the four seasons. There’s also
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Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts
The Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, on the first floor of the former town hall, counts among its permanent collection bronze sculptures by Franc Berneker (1874–1932) and naive paintings by Jože Tisnikar (1928–98). Tisnikar is among the most interesting and original artists in Sloveni
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Cathedral of St Nicholas
Perched above the Old Town, this Gothic cathedral is Novo Mesto’s most important historical monument. It has a 15th-century vaulted (and very floral) presbytery and crypt, wall frescoes, a belfry that had once been a medieval defence tower, and an altar painting of the church’s epo
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National Museum of Slovenia
Housed in a building dating from 1888, highlights at this museum include a highly embossed Vače situla, a Celtic pail from the late 6th century BC unearthed in a town east of Ljubljana, and a Stone Age bone flute discovered near Cerkno in western Slovenia in 1995. There are also ex
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Old Vine
About 150m east along the Pristan embankment is Maribors most celebrated attraction, the so-called Old Vine, which is still producing between 35kg and 55kg of grapes and about 25L of red wine per year after being planted more than four centuries ago. It is tended by a city-appointe
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Trg 1 Maja
Trg 1 Maja (1st May Square) may sound like a socialist parade ground, but it was the centre of Piran until the Middle Ages, when it was called Stari trg (Old Square). The surrounding streets are a maze of pastel-coloured overhanging houses, vaulted passages and arcaded courtyards.
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