Ljubljana
With a dazzling hilltop castle as her crown and the emerald-green Ljubljanica River at her feet, Ljubljana is a princess in size (petite).
With a dazzling hilltop castle as her crown and the emerald-green Ljubljanica River at her feet, Ljubljana is a princess in size (petite).
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Despite being the nation’s second-largest city, Maribor has only about a third of the population of Ljubljana and often feels more like an overgrown provincial town.
Picturesque Piran (Pirano in Italian), sitting at the tip of a narrow peninsula, is everyone’s favourite town on the Slovenian coast.
Rising gently above a wide valley, Ptuj (in English sounding not unlike someone spitting) forms a symphony of red-tile roofs best viewed from across the Drava River.
Coastal Slovenia’s largest town, Koper (Capodistria in Italian) at first glance appears to be a workaday port city that scarcely gives tourism a second thought.
With its emerald-green lake, picture-postcard church on an islet, a medieval castle clinging to a rocky cliff and some of the highest peaks of the Julian Alps and the Karavanke as backdrops, Bled is Slovenia's most popular resort, drawing everyone...
With its time-warp historical centre, fabulous architecture, excellent museums and enormous castle looming over the picturesque Savinja River, Celje might appear to have won the tourism sweepstakes.
Backed by a battalion of mountain peaks, including snow-capped Storžič (2132m), the Old Town in Kranj, Slovenia’s fourth-largest and most industrialised city, looks most picturesque when seen from across the Sava River, looking to the northeast.
Many visitors to Slovenia say they’ve never seen a more beautiful lake than Bled … that is, until they’ve seen Lake Bohinj, just 26km to the southwest.
The karst cave at Postojna, one of the largest in the world, is among Slovenia’s most popular attractions and its stalagmite and stalactite formations are unequalled anywhere.
Situated on a sharp bend of the Krka River, the inappropriately named ‘New Town’ is the political, economic and cultural capital Dolenjska, and one of the prettiest towns in the province.
Soča Valley's de facto capital, Bovec offers plenty for adventure-sports enthusiasts.
Nestling in the Sava Dolinka Valley some 40km northwest of Bled, Kranjska Gora (Carniolan Mountain) is Slovenia's largest and best-equipped ski resort.
The town of Radovljica is filled with charming, historic buildings and blessed with stunning views of the Alps, including Triglav.
Cerknica is the largest town on a lake that isn’t always a lake – one of Slovenia’s most unusual natural phenomena.
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