Predjama Castle Cave

Below Predjama Castle, is a 6km network of galleries spread over four levels. Much of it is open only to speleologists, but casual visitors can see about 900m of it. Longer tours to the end of the cave's Eastern Passage or Erazem's Gallery are available by prior arrangement only. Erazem Lueger was a 15th-century robber who, like Robin Hood, stole from the rich and handed it over to the poor. During the wars between the Hungarians and the Austrians, Lueger holed up Predjama Castle.

In the autumn of 1484 the Austrian army under Gašpar Ravbar, the governor of Trieste, attacked the castle, but it proved impregnable for months. All the while Erazem came and went as he pleased and continued his deeds with the help of a secret passage that led out from behind the rock wall.

Eventually he met an ignoble fate; hit by a cannon ball as he sat on the toilet. It seems a servant betrayed him by marking the location of the water closet with a little flag.