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Why Ljubljana

Visit the Cankarjev Dom cultural and congress centre, which hosts more than 1,000 events a year, Ljubljana Opera House or the Ljubljana Festival, which brings top-level concerts and performances to the city every summer. Tip: We will advise you on when you can see the events that interest you.

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Events in Ljubljana

It will also recall the beginnings of cycling competitions when they were still held on macadam roads. 12 Jun - 15 Jun 2024 MGLC Summer in Tivoli Summer in Tivoli enriches the exhibition program at the International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC) and Švicarija with evening guided tours of the exhibitions, concerts, and other artistic events in the pleasant natural surroundings of Tivoli Park.

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10 cultural highlights of Ljubljana

We present you ten highlights of culture offer and events. Ljubljana festival The Ljubljana Festival is one of the oldest in Europe since its beginnings date back to 1952. The opening of the festival, which marks each summer in the city with top artistic events, takes place at the Kongresni trg square.

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Closing of the 72nd Ljubljana Festival

The seventy-second Ljubljana Festival will be closed by the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra under Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit, the 103rd recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal (inaugurated in 1870 and awarded for the most outstanding musicianship).

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Tobačna

If the weather is nice, music and other events take place outdoors, while shows are performed in the ČinČin bar if it's raining or cold. Music and other events take place under treetops outdoors. In summer months, it turns into a venue of several music and creative festivals. These include Festival of Urban Culture Slovenia, Urbano Dejanje or the UD Festival, Red Bull Factory, Little Havana and BierGarten.

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Summer vibes in Ljubljana: family rafting and kayaking on Sava rapids

Summer vibes in Ljubljana: family rafting and kayaking on Sava rapids Jerneja Fidler Pompe An adventurer, a dreamer, an explorer.

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Summer vibes in Ljubljana: family rafting and kayaking on Sava rapids

Summer vibes in Ljubljana: family rafting and kayaking on Sava rapids Več With summer temps in town, it’s either chilling in a shade or enjoying invigorating water activities to keep you cool through the heat.

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ROCOCO VARIATION

He will lead the Slovenian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, which since its foundation in 1993 has played over 400 concerts at home and abroad, including several at the summer Ljubljana Festival. Together they will present a stylistically diverse repertoire, including the dynamic work of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, a master of the German Sturm und Drang style, followed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s famous classicist and Mozart-inspired variations, as well as one of his haunting and lyrical miniatures, then a composition by Juraj Marko Žerovnik, a young Croatian composer born in Rijeka, and finally one of the mainstays of the chamber music repertoire, the String Quartet No. 14 in D minor  by Franz Schubert, whose four movements are united by the motif of the danse macabre.

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ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DEL CONSERVATORIO VICENZO BELLINI DI CATANIA

Today he is known for organising numerous masterclasses at important institutions in New York, Warsaw, Mons, Paris, Moscow and Bucharest, and also teaches at the Ljubljana Festival Masterclasses. Furthermore, he is the director of and a professor at the Vincenzo Bellini State Conservatory in Catania, where in 2020 he founded the very active Orchestra Sinfonica Instituto Bellini (Vincenzo Bellini Conservatory Symphonic Orchestra), which includes teachers and students from the Associazione Musicale Etnea.

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SPANISH NIGHTS

Among others, he collaborates with the renowned Spanish theatre company La Fura dels Baus, with whom he presented the show Pastoral for the Planet  at last year’s festival. The soloist will be Fabio Furia, one of the leading bandoneonists, who has opened a bandoneon academy in Italy and regularly gives concerts and masterclasses, and will also be featured in this year’s Ljubljana Festival Masterclasses.

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