The parliament building at the northeast corner of Trg Republike, built between 1954 and 1959 by Vinko Glanz, is no beauty-pageant winner on the outside, but the mammoth portal festooned with bronze sculptures is noteworthy. If you time it right, it鈥檚 worth booking a guided tour via the website to see the inside, especially the period-piece mural by Slavko Pengov.
老澳门六合彩开奖记录's must-see attractions
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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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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 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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Perched atop a steep cliff more than 100m above the lake, Bled Castle is how most people imagine a medieval fortress to be, with towers, ramparts, moats鈥
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More interesting than it sounds, this apiculture museum takes a closer look at the long tradition of beekeeping in Slovenia. The museum's collection of鈥
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Radovljica's colourful main square is the town鈥檚 leading attraction, lined with houses from the 16th and 17th centuries. Look especially for Thurn Manor,鈥
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Tiny, tear-shaped Bled Island beckons from the shore. There鈥檚 the Church of the Assumption and a small museum, the Provost's House, but the real thrill is鈥
Nearby Ljubljana attractions
1. Slovenian Museum of Natural History
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This museum shares the same building as the National Museum of Slovenia, and contains reassembled mammoth and whale skeletons, stuffed birds, reptiles and鈥
2. National Museum of Slovenia
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Housed in a grand building from 1888 鈥 the same building as the Slovenian Museum of Natural History 鈥 highlights include the highly embossed Va膷e situla 鈥撯
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This rather esoteric museum explores how Slovenian kids learned the three Rs in past centuries. The mock-ups of the old classrooms are excellent and there鈥
4. Ursuline Church of the Holy Trinity
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This church, which faces Kongresni trg from across Slovenska cesta and dates from 1726, is the most beautiful baroque building in the city. It contains a鈥
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The small gilded statue on top of a column at the western end of Kongresni trg is a copy (the original is in the National Museum) of the Roman-era Citizen鈥
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Center鈥檚 main plaza is dominated by a pair of glowering, grey tower blocks 鈥 TR3, housing offices and embassies, and the headquarters of Nova Ljubljanska鈥
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This lovely square, with leafy Zvezda Park (Star Park) at its centre and an underground car park beneath, was named in honour of the Congress of the Holy鈥