Southeastern Slovenia
This is an unexpected treat: superbly varied art in a magnificent setting, surrounded by a garden full of sculptures. The museum's galleries showcase the…
Must-see attractions in Southeastern Slovenia
Southeastern Slovenia
Housed in Brežice Castle, the Posavje Museum is one of provincial Slovenia’s richest museums, particularly for its archaeological and ethnographic…
Southeastern Slovenia
The Dolenjska Museum's impressive collection is spread over a campus of buildings. The oldest, which once belonged to the Knights of the Teutonic Order,…
Southeastern Slovenia
Located 10km southwest of Kostanjevica na Krki, the enormous Pleterje Monastery belongs to the Carthusians, the strictest of all monastic orders. The…
Southeastern Slovenia
One of Slovenia's most pristine areas, Kočevski Rog's virgin forests have been a protected nature area for more than a century. As many as 250 brown bears…
Southeastern Slovenia
Mokrice Castle, 10km southeast of Brežice, is the loveliest fortress in the Posavje region. The castle dates from the 16th century, but there are bits and…
Southeastern Slovenia
No one's going to get lost or tired touring the itsy-bitsy Old Town island of Kostanjevica – walk 400m up Oražnova ulica and 400m down Ulica Talcev and…
Southeastern Slovenia
The Dolenjska Museum administers Jakac House, which exhibits some of its 830-odd works by prolific painter and local boy Božidar Jakac (1899–1989). The…
Southeastern Slovenia
This is a great addition to the town – a centre tasked with preserving and promoting the area's long-standing handicraft traditions. The suha roba made in…
Church of the Assumption of Mary
Southeastern Slovenia
The church at Nova Štifta, in the foothills of the Velika Gora 7km west of Ribnica, is one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Slovenia. Completed…
Southeastern Slovenia
Vineyard-covered Trška Gora (428m) can be reached by road from Mačkovec, about 5km southwest of Otočec. From there, follow the road north for 1km to Sevno…
Southeastern Slovenia
Perched in the centre of the Krka River and reached via a wooden bridge, Otočec Castle, 1.5km east of Otočec village, showcases both late-Gothic and…
Southeastern Slovenia
The Old Town's main square, home to the neo-Renaissance town hall, was busy undergoing a restoration in 2018; expect it to be fully brushed up when you…
Southeastern Slovenia
Established in 1136 by the Cistercians (famous for their vows of silence), this abbey was for centuries the most important religious, economic,…
Southeastern Slovenia
This Renaissance-style castle was the home of celebrated 17th-century polymath Janez Vajkard Valvasor, who spent the most productive two decades of his…
Southeastern Slovenia
During WWII's early days, the Partisans, under Marshal Tito's command, headquartered in Kočevski Rog's dense forests. Amid limestone caves they operated…
Southeastern Slovenia
This 200-hectare park, about 9km south of Črnomelj, is a protected karst area rich in birdlife and is the source of the Lahinja River. Trails criss-cross…
Southeastern Slovenia
Perched above the Old Town, this Gothic cathedral is Novo Mesto’s most important historical monument. It has a 15th-century vaulted (and very floral)…
Southeastern Slovenia
This underground bunker was built in the 1950s to house Slovenia's top brass in case of nuclear war. In 2017 the dimly lit underground corridors and rooms…
Southeastern Slovenia
The mighty 13th-century Žužemberk Castle perches photogenically on a terrace overlooking the Krka River. It was refortified in the 16th century, only to…
Southeastern Slovenia
About 4km northwest of Črnomelj is Rožanec village; to reach it turn west just after Lokve. From the village centre, a sign points along a trail leading…
Southeastern Slovenia
Located in Metlika Castle, the Bela Krajina Museum's small collection is an eclectic grab bag of minor finds from local archaeological sites (Iron Age and…
Southeastern Slovenia
Krka Cave lies above the Krka spring on the northern side of Gradiček village, just northwest of Krka village. It's nowhere close to the league of the…
Southeastern Slovenia
The little Open-Air Museum Pleterje, to the west of the Pleterje Monastery car park, has thatched peasant houses, hayracks, a pigsty and even an outhouse…
Southeastern Slovenia
Ribnica Castle was originally built in the 11th century and expanded over hundreds of years. Only a small section – a Renaissance wall and two towers –…
Southeastern Slovenia
Metlika's town square contains 18th- and 19th-century buildings, including the neo-Gothic town hall. At the southern end of the square is the Commandery,…
Southeastern Slovenia
On the Old Town's main square, the neo-Renaissance town hall, out of step with the square’s other arcaded buildings, ostentatiously calls attention to…
Southeastern Slovenia
This protected area follows the meandering path of the Kolpa River from the brilliantly named village of Fučkovci (fuch-kow-tse), just north of Adlešiči,…
Southeastern Slovenia
This 13th-century Romanesque building has a mostly baroque interior. Above the carved stone portal on the western side are geometric designs and…
Franciscan Church of St Leonard
Southeastern Slovenia
Southeast of Glavni trg is the yellow Franciscan Church of St Leonard, originally built by monks fleeing the Turks in Bosnia in 1472, and the attached…
Southeastern Slovenia
Built in 1868 on the site of earlier churches, this parish church would not be of much interest were it not for the two striking towers added in 1960 to…
Southeastern Slovenia
At the southern end of Mestni trg is the so-called Commandery, which once belonged to the Knights of the Teutonic Order. Check out the Maltese Cross above…
Southeastern Slovenia
The main square is surrounded by some of the town's oldest and most important buildings: the castle, the mid-17th-century Commandery and a grand old bank…
Southeastern Slovenia
The church dates to the 13th century but what you’ll see today is a standard-issue baroque structure with a single spire. There are Roman tombstones built…
Southeastern Slovenia
This cute green house is home to displays of local arts and crafts including embroidery, woodwork and Bela Krajina's renowned pisanice, intricately…
Southeastern Slovenia
This small cave, about 1.5km southeast of town, has 40-minute tours in spring, summer and autumn. The guide will lead you 250m in, past a small lake and…
Southeastern Slovenia
Within a 15th-century manor house, the Lamut Art Salon, a branch of the Božidar Jakac Art Museum, hosts temporary exhibitions by contemporary artists.
Southeastern Slovenia
Since 1914 this 46m-high water tower has been one of the town's most prominent landmarks, with its octagonal reservoir at the top looming over surrounding…
Southeastern Slovenia
Mikel House is a lovely cream-and-white building dating from 1858; it houses exhibitions of contemporary art and does double duty as the town’s library.
Southeastern Slovenia
This tiny late-Gothic structure has a presbytery containing brightly coloured frescoes of scenes from the Old and New Testaments painted in 1931.
