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Slovenia is probably one of Eastern Europe's
best kept secrets combining some of Bavaria, a little of Mediterranean
Riviera, a stretch of the Danube, a touch of Venice and a part of the
Balkans in a charming little country. Slovenia surprises visitors at
every step with its natural sites. In this tiny piece of Europe, the
picturesque features of the Alpine, Mediterranean, Karst, and Pannonian
worlds are combined. At the contact point of such naturally diverse
regions, nature shows a hundred attractive faces. A country situated at
the intersection of many historical routes, Slovenia is also rich in
treasury of the past, to which many valuable archeological finds testify. Here you can enjoy pristine mountains and lakes, castles and alpine forests, vineyards and meadows, beaches and island resorts. Its baroque capital, Ljubljana, is just a two-hour drive from Venice and a three-and-a-half-hour drive from Vienna.
Some of the highlights:
Julian
Alps - A view of the Soča and the upper
Sava river valleys spreads below Mount Triglav, Slovenia’s highest
mountain. Lying between the two rivers is Triglav National Park, which
protects numerous endemic animal and plant species in a region of high
rocky mountains, deeply cut river gorges, high-mountain karst shafts,
and attractive low mountains as well as the traditions of the once
difficult life of mountain farmers and alpine dairymen.
Ljubljana
and its area - A city by the river on which the mythological
Argonauts carried the Golden Fleece, a city by a moor where the crannog
dwellers once lived, a city with the rich heritage of Roman Emona, a
city that was once the capital of the Province of Carniola and the
capital of Napoleon’s Illyrian Provinces, a city of Renaissance,
Baroque, and especially Art Nouveau facades, a city that boasts the
greatest exhibition of the architecture of the master Jože Plečnik—all
this is Ljubljana.
Coast and
Karst - Where the sun strokes the picturesque Mediterranean towns
on the Adriatic coast. Its rays are infatuated with the beauty of the
Karst region planted with olive groves and vineyards, with peach
orchards and cherry trees. Some of the most beautiful underground worlds
of our planet lie below their roots. There are more than six thousand
karst caves and sinkholes in Slovenia, and ten of these treasuries of
limestone masterpieces created by disappearing karst rivers have been
adapted and opened for tourists. |
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