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Summer in the city: how to stay cool in Ljubljana?

But if you don't like the heat at all, here are some tips. The great indoors You can cool off nicely among the thick walls of the Ljubljana Castle and learn about Slovenian history at a permanent exhibition of the same name. Churches, especially the famous St.

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Most Instagrammable desserts in Ljubljana

It also helps if you find a pretty background - luckily for you a lot of places offers them (pretty tables, nice walls or cute "insta" corners). Share your Instagram journey in Ljubljana with the #VisitLjubljana hashtag and include your devouring dessert recommendations.

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Exploring Ljubljanica river by kayak

The river is well known between treasure hunters all around the world, looking for historical objects from different historical times – from ancient cultures to better known ones like Romans and Celts. It was never known, how many historically worth objects have been found in Ljubljanica River, but the archeologists are guessing there are at least few thousands.

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Bevke Learning Trail

You can learn, for example, that the “Ljubljana Marshes” have long ceased to be a marsh (or, more accurately, a bog) and are instead an endless patchwork of humid meadows, stands of trees, small woods, hedgerows, fields, and so on, that provides shelter to numerous animals and plants (including 89 species of butterflies, 48 species of dragonflies and 258 observed species of birds); or that a mill path serving the inhabitants of Bevke and Podpeč once ran through here; or about the “river of seven names”, the Ljubljanica, along which part of the trail runs, and about its treasures; about the valuable stone quarried near Podpeč (which even adorns the National and University Library in Ljubljana, one of the most monumental works of the famous architect Jože Plečnik); about how the territory of Roman Aquileia extended as far as Bevke; and about the flooding of the wetland, which acts as a sponge, soaking up an enormous quantity of water and in this way protecting Ljubljana from floods – visiting is, in fact, not advised after heavy rain, since flooding can make some of the route impassable.

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Sway the night away with Ljubljana’s favourite jazz clubs

The Castle’s Rock Hall is just what the name suggests. It’s a hall with rocks sticking out from walls, floor and ceiling and has a cave-like feeling. Really cool! Of course, that means, the atmosphere is perfect for evening concerts and soulful music.

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Especially typical are the picturesque façades of the buildings, particularly their ornamentation; the most famous ones are the work of Maks Fabiani. Roman Wall and Roman Ljubljana In Mirje, the southern side of the Emona walls has been preserved for almost its entire length. Starting in 14 and 15 AD, these walls surrounded Emona, a Roman settlement that stood where the centre of Ljubljana is today, in the shape of a rectangle, and which had twenty-six towers and four main doors.

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Best places to work/study in (while drinking) in Ljubljana

Več Sorodne zgodbe Street art in Ljubljana You can call it vandalism or you can call it art, one thing is for certain: Ljubljana is rich with creative street art and colourful graffiti. Some are just regular funny writings on the wall and some are true art pieces that should probably hang in someone’s living room. Take a walk around town and see them for yourself.

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Hiking trails in Ljubljana and its region

Read more Hiking trails in the Ljubljana region In Ljubljana region, the pre-Alpine and Alpine worlds meet the karst landscape, with hillocks and hills rising as far as the eye can see until they are halted by the mighty grey walls of the Alps. © Jaka Ivančič The region offers a number of locally popular hiking trails that are well worth discovering.

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Polhov Gradec Mansion

Count Blagaj, an enlightened Mecean of art and a botanist after whom the protected plant Blagajev volčin (spurge laurel) was named lived here in the 19th century. The mansion has a beautiful garden, surrounded by walls. A statue of God Neptune, four nymphs and the Polhogradec lords’ coat of arms from embellish the Neptune well in the courtyard, made in the second half of the 17th century.

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Ljubljana Puppet Theatre

The name of this function space was inspired by its architecture, as the ceiling and one third of the walls are made of glass. This allows an enjoyable open view of the sky while attending an event, such as a concert, fashion show, educational programme or a business gathering. 

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