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Ljubljana’s Tourism Week Earns City a Spot in Green Destinations Top 100 Stories

The Green Destinations Top 100 Stories competition annually collects best practices of sustainable tourism worldwide through a public call, showcasing examples that serve as inspiration and guidance for other destinations, travel organizers, and visitors. Only the most effective and innovative practices, transferable to other destinations, make it into the Top 100. The competition has been organized by the Green Destinations organization since 2014, and Ljubljana is the only city in the world to have been included on the Top 100 list eleven times.

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Artistic event of the year: International Biennial of Graphic Arts

Every second autumn, Ljubljana hosts the International Biennial of Graphic Arts, which has been opening challenging new perspectives on graphic art for six decades and is considered to be one of the most acclaimed events of its kind in the world. The Biennial's main exhibition, titled Over you / you, combines, in a unique way, traditional and contemporary forms of graphic production

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Incentive Programmes with CSR Touch

Through them we spread awareness, respect local values and endeavour fair trade.” And what is most important and special about this new product? “Part of the earnings will be given to organisations which are striving for a better social environment and to organisations fighting for preservation of cultural and natural heritage”, Mr.

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Church of St. James

The stone altars in the church's side chapels were sculpted by the Venetian sculptors Angelo Putti, Jacopo Contieri, Francesco Rottman and Francesco Robba. The most outstanding altar painting is The Death of St. Joseph (Smrt sv. Jožefa) by Franc Karl Remb. When the Jesuit college building burnt down, a square was built in its place.

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Hotel Mrak and its peculiar inhabitants

Ivan Mrak (1906–1986) was a slightly unconventional Slovenian playwright and writer, who lived and worked in the hotel throughout most of his life. From a local pub to a bohemian salon It was Ivan's father Valentin Mrak who bought a local pub, and moved it to the present hotel location.

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Two Sporto Awards for the "Volleyball on the Ljubljanica" project

In the same month, Tourism Ljubljana launched an additional video of the spectacle, in response to a follower's comment. The latter became the most viewed clip on @visitljubljana's TikTok profile. The post received over 73 million views, 3.2 million likes and over 8,000 comments.

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What Awaits Congress Ljubljana in 2016?

Furthermore, many different events, from congresses, conferences, forums and symposiums will take place in our capital, and we would like to name just a few of them: EU Robotics Forum 2nd International Dental Student Congress 44th Conference of the European String Teachers Association CEEISA-ISA Joint International Conference »Politics for International Relations« 17th World Lace Congress of OIDFA 15th International Conference on Research in Advertising 12th Winfocus World Congress on Ultrasound in Emergency & Critical Care 11th International Congress on Non-Motor Dysfunctions in Parkinson's Disease and related Disorders – NMDPD As very common in the events industry, the most packed months in 2016 are predicted to be June and October, which are due to attract around 5.000 attendees at various scientific meetings.

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Prešernov trg square

© Matej Kastelic/ Mostphotos © Matej Kastelic/Mostphotos The first decade of the 20th century saw the Art Nouveau refurbishment of Hauptman House and the building of Urbanc House, one of Ljubljana's most beautiful Art Nouveau buildings, which housed the city's first department store. Between the two World Wars, as a final touch to the square, the Mayer department store was built on the south side of the square.

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The Cathedral (Church of St. Nicholas)

One of the more interesting is the dome fresco painted by Matevž Langus in 1844. The most outstanding 20th century additions include Tone Demšar's main entrance door relief depicting the history of Slovenia, commissioned to mark the 1250th anniversary of Christianity in Slovenia, and Mirsad Begić's side doors with portraits of bishops.

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Green supply chains

The project has already received two major awards: the Premik Naprej 2018 award for biggest improvement in the public sector, and an international award for best sustainable practice in the cities category from Green Destinations, awarded at ITB Berlin, one of the most important tourism trade fairs in the world. Help us improve the site Did you find the information you were looking for?

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