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It is situated in the Ljubljana Basin in Central Slovenia, between the Alps and the Karst. Ljubljana is located some 320 km (200 mi) south of Munich, 477 km (296 mi) east of Zürich, 250 km (160 mi) east of Venice, 350 km (220 mi) southwest of Vienna, 124 km (77 mi) west of Zagreb and 400 km (250 mi) southwest of Budapest.
Discover Ljubljana, a vibrant and green city with a rich cultural and culinary scene, a sustainable lifestyle, and a variety of attractions. Explore its history, architecture, museums, parks, and events, and get inspired by locals' recommendations.
- Explore the Lovely City Center. The Ljubljianica River flows through the vibrant, colorful old town. Most of what you will see and do is clustered right along these riverbanks (see everything on a map below).
- Visit Preseren Square. This is the central square in Ljubljana. The bright pink Franciscan Church of the Annunciation dominates the square and forms the backdrop for many photos in Ljubljana.
- Don’t Miss Ljubljana’s Famous Bridges. The bridges in Ljubljana are far from boring. Adorned with dragons, sculptures, and love locks, even the bridges here are interesting to visit.
- Escape from Ljubljana Castle. What better way to explore a castle than to play an escape room game? Escape Castle is an innovative twist to visiting a medieval castle.
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- Prešeren Square
- Triple Bridge
- Ljubljana Castle
- Dragon Bridge
- Tivoli Park
- Ljubljana Cathedral
- Central Market
- Franciscan Church of The Annunciation
- National Gallery of Slovenia
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Right by the Ljubljanica, Prešeren Square is the place where the city meets up and celebrate. If there’s an event going on in Ljubljana there’s a good chance it will happen in this space. With a rough triangular outline, the square is at the convergence of a number of major arteries, and gained its current opulent appearance after the earthquake in...
Ushering you off Prešeren Square is a group of three bridges decorated with stone balustrades and lanterns. The central bridge of the three is much older than the two that flank it, and dates to 1842. This was intended for road traffic, while the two alongside were added for pedestrians at the start of the 1930 and were the work of Jože Plečnik, Lj...
When you’re looking up from Ljubljana’s squares, the castle seems dauntingly high. If you’ve got the mettle you can try to get up there on foot, but there’s also a tourist train and a funicular railway. The castle has changed a lot since it first came together 900 years ago. The early stone wood and stone fortress was succeeded by more practical mi...
The four intimidating dragons that stand sentinel on each corner of this bridge are an emblem for Ljubljana and show up all over the city. Taken from the coat of arms they’re strikingly lifelike (supposing dragons existed!), were rendered in sheet copper in the A. M. Beschorner factory in Vienna, and designed by the bridge’s architect Jurij Zaninov...
Within just a few streets of the Ljubljanica you can be in a green space that pushes out for more than two kilometres. This begins with the elegant gardens and avenues landscaped in 1813 and extends up the slope onto the wilder Rožnik Hill, which is crisscrossed by nature trails. In the lower reaches there are dignified properties like the Baroque ...
This monument has had a few different forms since the 13th century because of fires and war. The current Baroque design though has survived since the beginning of the 18th century, while the splendid dome came later, in the 1840s. It’s an awe-inspiring building replete with art by a number of Italian Baroque masters. The likes of Francesco Robba, t...
Jože Plečnik also designed this market in the early 1930s as part of his beautiful set piece that included the Triple Bridge. It hugs the riverside between this bridge and the Dragon Bridge and is on the site of an old diocesan college for girls that collapsed during the earthquake in 1895. That handsome colonnade on the fringe of Prešeren Square s...
A solemn presence on Prešeren Square, this church is in an early Baroque style from the middle of the 17th century. The facade is painted a pastel red, which holds meaning for the Franciscan order. It’s one of the sights to behold on the square, and has pinnacles, pilasters with Ionic capitals, niches and a statue of the Virgin with Child on the pe...
Fronting Tivoli Park is Slovenia’s premier historical art museum, displaying works from medieval times to the 1900s. It’s in a Revivalist palace from the end of the 19th century and has modern extensions built in the early 90s and 2001. There are more than 600 works to peruse in here, from Gothic liturgical art to pieces by the Italian Baroque pain...
Soon after independence, a disused army barracks from the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was occupied by squatters to stop it from being torn down. This large space in the centre of Ljubljana has gone on to become an autonomous urban enclave, not unlike the famous Freetown Christiania in Copenhagen. It’s an alternative haven where almost every...
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