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Slovenian Ethnographic Museum
Housed in the 1886 Belgian Barracks on the southern edge of Metelkova, this museum has a permanent collection on the 2nd and 3rd floors. There’s traditional Slovenian trades and handicrafts – everything from beekeeping and blacksmithing to glass-painting and pottery making – and so
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Trg Republike
Center’s main plaza is dominated by a pair of glowering, grey tower blocks – TR3, housing offices and embassies, and the headquarters of Nova Ljubljanska Banka – and a couple of garish revolutionary monuments. But the car park that once created such an eyesore is gone and the squar
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Miner’s House
Laid out across the slopes encircling the valley are Idrija’s distinctive miners’ houses. Large wooden A-frames with cladding and dozens of windows, they usually had four storeys with living quarters for three or four families. You can visit a traditional miner’s house above the ce
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Trenta
The elongated mountain village of Trenta (elevation 620m) is the main settlement along the road over the Vršič Pass. The lower section, Spodnja Trenta (Lower Trenta), is home to the Triglav National Park Information Centre . In the same building you’ll find the Trenta Museum , whic
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Synagogue
Just north of the pentagonal 16th-century Water Tower on the waterfront, a set of steps leads up to Židovska ulica (Jewish St), the centre of the Jewish district in the Middle Ages, and home to this 15th-century synagogue. It contains Gothic key stones and tomb fragments; the speci
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Church of the Holy Rosary
At the end of Tomšičeva ulica northwest of Pungert is the Church of the Holy Rosary, built in the 16th century. It was a Protestant sanctuary during the Reformation. Beside the church are arcades, a fountain and a monumental staircase designed in the late 1950s by Jože Plečnik to g
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Stari Trg
Lined with 19th-century wooden shop fronts, quiet courtyards and cobblestone passageways, this is the heart of the Old Town. From behind the medieval houses on the eastern side, paths once led to Castle Hill, which was a source of water. The buildings fronting the river had large p
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Trg Svobode
The main square is surrounded by some of the towns oldest and most important buildings: the castle , parts of which date from the mid-12th century (now home to administrative offices); the Commandery (the current building dates from 1655; it acts as the regional courthouse); and a
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Parish Church of St Peter
The church dates to the 13th century but what you’ll see today is a standard-issue baroque structure with a single spire. There are Roman tombstones built into the walls, and on the western exterior above the main entrance is a fresco of St Christopher.
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Križanke
French Revolution Square was for centuries the headquarters of the Teutonic Knights of the Cross (Križniki) . They built a commandery here in the early 13th century, which was transformed into the Križanke monastery complex in 1714, which today serves as the headquarters of the Lju
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Kidričeva Ulica
On the north side of Kidričeva ulica are several churches from the 16th century, including the Church of St Nicholas , plus some restored Venetian houses and the 18th-century baroque Totto Palace , with winged lion relief. Opposite the palace are wonderful medieval town houses , wi
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Prešeren Memorial Museum
The restored Prešeren House now contains the Prešeren Memorial Museum in five rooms, two of them with original furnishings. Unfortunately, most of the explanatory notes next to the poets letters, diaries and manuscripts are in Slovene only. Prešeren is buried in the parish cemetery
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Podčetrtek Castle
The enormous Renaissance-style Podčetrtek Castle, atop a 355m-high hill to the northwest of town, went up some time in the mid-16th century but was badly damaged by an earthquake in 1974. The castle, which is not open to the public but offers stunning views, can be reached by walki
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Evangelical Church
The neo-Gothic Evangelical Church (1910) is the main Lutheran seat in Slovenia. (The majority of Slovenian Protestants live in Prekmurje). The interior, painted with geometric shapes and floral motifs in muted shades of blue, green, brown and gold, is a welcome change from the over
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Obzidna Ulica
Behind the market north of Tartinijev trg, medieval homes have been built into an ancient defensive wall along Obzidna ulica, which passes under the 15th-century Dolphin Gate (Dolfinova Vrata), with a plaque showing three of our smiling friends. Židovski trg , the centre of Jewish
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Parliament Building
The parliament building at the northeast corner of Trg Republike, built between 1954 and 1959 by Vinko Glanz, is no beauty-pageant winner on the outside, but the mammoth portal festooned with bronze sculptures is noteworthy. If you can time it right, it’s worth booking a guided tou
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Franciscan Church of the Annunciation
The 17th-century salmon-pink Franciscan Church of the Annunciation stands on the northern side of Prešernov trg. The interior has six side altars and an enormous choir stall. The main altar was designed by the Italian sculptor Francesco Robba (1698–1757). To the left of the main al
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Koča Pri Čarovnici
A little trail in the forest 1.5km above the Olimje Minorite Monastery, laid out by the former local school principal, leads you past dozens of his all-singin, all-dancin fairytale characters made of recycled materials who act out their roles. Theres also a small museum of local li
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Dobrovo Castle
The Renaissance-style Dobrovo Castle, dating from 1606, has a handful of rooms filled with artworks and period furnishings (limited labelling). Theres a decent restaurant here, and in the cellar is Vinoteka Brda , where you can sample local vintages (white rebula and chardonnay or
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Prešernov Trg
The 17th-century Italian family who erected the fountain in Prešernov trg was named Da Ponte; thus it is shaped like a bridge (ponte in Italian). At the squares southern end is the Muda Gate . Erected in 1516, it’s the last of a dozen such entrances to remain standing. On the south
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