The castle was built in the 1520s to serve as the administrative headquarters of the Idrija mine. This award-winning Municipal Museum is housed inside.
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The jaw-dropping Postojna Cave system, a series of caverns, halls and passages some 24km long and two million years old, was hollowed out by the Pivka鈥
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Touring the huge, spectacular subterranean chambers of the 6km-long 艩kocjan Caves is a must. This remarkable cave system was carved out by the Reka River,鈥
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Crowning a 375m-high hill east of the Old Town, this castle is an architectural mishmash, with most of it dating from the early 16th century when it was鈥
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Predjama Castle, 9km from Postojna, is one of Europe's most dramatic castles. It teaches a clear lesson: if you want to build an impregnable fortification鈥
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The stud farm can be visited on very popular, 50-minute guided tours. The interesting, informative tours are available in a number of languages; a tour鈥
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One of the easiest and most satisfying half-day trips from Bled is to Vintgar Gorge, some 4km to the northwest of Bled village. The highlight is a 1600m鈥
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The town's premier sight is the commanding Loka castle, overlooking the settlement from a grassy hill west of Mestni trg. It dates from the 13th century鈥
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Sitting on a rocky outcrop 7km from Trieste, Castello di Miramare is the city's elegiac bookend, the fanciful neo-Gothic home of the hapless Archduke鈥
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This award-winning museum is housed in the hilltop Gewerkenegg Castle. The excellent collections, which deal with mercury, lace and local history (but,鈥
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The Idrija Lace School was founded in 1876 (it's the biggest and oldest lace school in the world), and continues to offer lace-making skills to younger鈥
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The mine is a 鈥榣iving museum鈥, allowing you to get a feel for the working conditions of mercury miners in Idrija. The entrance is the Anthony Shaft, built鈥
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Laid out across the slopes encircling the valley are Idrija鈥檚 distinctive miners鈥 houses. Large wooden A-frames with cladding and dozens of windows, they鈥
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One of the most interesting examples of mining technology that still exists is the 碍补尘拧迟, a 13.6m waterwheel made of wood that was used to pump the water鈥
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A 3km trail called Pot ob Rakah follows the Idrijca River Canal from the 碍补尘拧迟 (an 18th-century waterwheel used by the mines) to Wild Lake, a tiny,鈥
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Describing this place as a farm just doesn't do it justice. This ecological farm, for want of a better word, sits almost 1000m above sea level around 20km鈥
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The town's museum is not far southwest of Glavni trg. Its main displays trace the development of the region from earliest times to the modern period, but鈥