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Ljubljana on social media

Visibility on social media is important for any city, as it shapes its brand, attracts tourists and investors, thereby increasing the economic potential of the city, and allows the local population to share opinions on topics that are important to the community. We prepared an overview of the most attractive [...]

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Most beautiful rainbows in Ljubljana

Photos of rainbows above Ljubljana and its surrounding areas are often posted on Instagram, delighting visitors and earning many likes. What makes rainbows so magical is their unpredictable nature, lasting for just a few fleeting minutes or seconds, and the photographer has to ready to quickly capture it. But the [...]

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The Most Beautiful Interiors of Ljubljana

We all know Ljubljana best for its appearance. But even in the interiors of buildings, there are spaces that take your breath away with their artistic perfection and luxury. We looked for some such interiors and photographed them. The list is not final and we suggest you complete it by [...]

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Ljubljana Clocks

Before we started relying on watches and then on cell phones showing the time we relied on watches in public buildings. They were everywhere, especially in major buildings: churches, schools, courts, bus stops, universities … In fact, the use of the past tense is out of place because all those [...]

Nepričakovan aprilski sneg ni oviral tekmovalcev na Plečnikovem stadionu pri igranju nogometa, Ljubljana, april 1970, foto: Marjan Ciglič, hrani: MNZS.

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Snowy Ljubljana

When we recently posted a photo on our Instagram profile of children enjoying the joys of winter amid the Šiška residential block neighbourhood the responses were overwhelming. Someone wrote: “A lot has changed… But when the snow falls, you see exactly the same child’s joy as 40 years ago…” It’s [...]

Vodič po kultnih ljubljanskih lokalih, trgovinah in prodajalcih

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A guide to the cult bars, shops and sellers in Ljubljana

Some of Ljubljana’s shops and bars, as well as individual sellers, are downright legendary. Almost every resident of the city knows them, and there are often queues in front of their shops or bars, as their reputation has spread far and wide. We made a list of such bars, shops [...]

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15 favourite photography locations

Ljubljana is an inspiring location for taking pictures. Historical buildings, modern architecture, street art, Plečnik, socialist apartment block neighbourhoods, baroque, art nouveau, squats, picturesque river embankments … all this and more is intertwined in a relatively small, almost pocket-sized area. In this post, Denis will reveal fifteen locations where he [...]

Sedem kotičkov, kjer je jesen v Ljubljani najlepša

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Seven places in Ljubljana where autumn is at its most beautiful

Ljubljana in autumn is luxurious and glowing, as well as calm and melancholic. The beautiful colours of autumn leaves are usually shrouded by fog in the morning, and then illuminated by soft light. Leaves of bronze, copper, gold or some other precious colour rustle beneath our feet, with a blue [...]

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RIP Ljubljana bars and restaurants

In the last year and a half, many bars and restaurants in Ljubljana have closed their doors. Some because of coronavirus measures, some for other reasons. We went on a walk through Ljubljana and photographed some of them. We know that we did not include all of them. If you [...]

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Plečnik in person

Anyone living in Ljubljana encounters Plečnik’s work every day. His works are an inextricable part of the city’s soul, radiating elegance and perfection in their surroundings, thus enriching it. This is how I experienced them myself – as bright spots of the urban fabric, as something that is always worth [...]

9 kandidatk za najlepšo ljubljansko ulico

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Nine candidates for the most beautiful street in Ljubljana

There are many interesting museums and galleries, many excellent restaurants and bars, divers shops and many sights in Ljubljana, but most of the beauty of the city is hidden in its streets. We have selected nine streets that, in our opinion, can compete for the flattering title of the Most [...]

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Kiosks in Ljubljana in the past and today

Ljubljana is unlikely to be described as a city of kiosks. Nevertheless, it does have a kind of love affair with kiosks, as is evident from the published archival photographs. A look at Ljubljana’s kiosks in retrospect reveals how important a part of city life they are (or were), and [...]

10 razlogov, zakaj so Fužine ena najbolj prijetnih ljubljanskih sosesk

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Ten reasons why Fužine is one of the most pleasant neighbourhoods in Ljubljana

Ljubljana’s Fužine has long been a neighbourhood of bad repute. They were considered a čefur ghetto (derogatory term for those originating from other countries of the former Yugoslavia or descendants of such immigrants), a slightly dangerous place where many things are happening. Arriving in Fužine on a beautiful Saturday in [...]

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Ljubljana Sleeping Beauties

Every even such a beautiful city has abandoned buildings or whole areas that are not keeping abreast of time. They have turned into gathering places for artists, the homeless, houses of fear, spaces that stir the imagination. Their fate is different: some buildings will inevitably fall into disrepair, some will [...]

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Is Ljubljana a liberal, tolerant and open city?

The question is simple, but the answer is not. In 2021, the Movehub relocation platform ranked Ljubljana ninth on the list of the world’s most liberal cities. They took into consideration the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report, the Environmental Performance Index and the Social Progress Index, as well [...]

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Is there anything that’s still open in Šiška

Every city has its own cult district, and for Ljubljana that’s Šiška. Or so they claim in the film Šiška Deluxe. That’s something that some Ljubljana residents agree with, while others don’t. Debates in online forums are heated and reflect the great divide in opinions. So what is it that [...]

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Ljubljana’s districts in Slovenian films

Slovenian film adores Ljubljana and Ljubljana naturally returns this adoration. The feeling of love is mutual. We selected five very well-known film highlights of the city’s tapestry and its people; five films that depict Ljubljana in very different lights. Fužine Fužine, the district that is home to many blocks of [...]

Nostalgia

Inscriptions

Cities are densely packed with symbols, signs, inscriptions, and other visual messages. They are an important part of public communication, an urban language that is sometimes understood only by locals and sometimes by everyone. As we encounter them for years and years, they become self-evident to us, and we no [...]

Deset stvari o legendarnem županu Ivanu Hribarju

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Ten things about the legendary mayor Ivan Hribar

Ivan Hribar (1851-1941) was unquestionably one of Ljubljana’s most successful mayors. During his fourteen-year mayoralty, the number of buildings in Ljubljana doubled, and it also received a water supply, a power plant, a gas station, a tram, new schools, a public pool, and other amenities. Villa Zlatica in Rožna valley, [...]

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Roaming around Ljubljana through ten doors

Sartre’s Closed Door, Gide’s Narrow Gate, Dylan’s Celestial, Golden Gate. Passage is open to communication, agreement, transition… and closed to the borders preventing our step, closing off our access to the intimate world of other people. Many doors in Ljubljana are boring, industrially made, having inconspicuous design and colours that [...]

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Ljubljana in flower

After a long and usually gloomy winter, snowy Ljubljana turns into a blossoming Ljubljana in March and April. The terraces are filled with locals and tourists basking in the sun, and intoxicating smells spread from the Odprta kuhna event on Pogačarjev trg – unless there is an epidemic in the [...]

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Ten things you may not have known about Ljubljana

Dragon Bridge When the architect Jurij Zaninović drew the plans for the Jubilee Bridge of Franz Joseph I in 1900, he envisioned sculptures of winged lions. In the final plan, the lions were replaced by dragons, which are now one of the biggest tourist attractions in Ljubljana. Ljubljana’s oldest house [...]

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Ljubljana- upside down

Rainy days are the ideal opportunity to capture the reflections of the city, houses and people that are created in puddles in a photographic lens. They are an opportunity for creativity, for finding new perspectives, for discovering the hidden spots of the city. The world is turned upside down, everything [...]