Alpine Dairy Farming Museum
Stara Fužina · Bohinj €
Keeps the original cheese-making workshop with two built-in 1,200-litre vats, and an 1849 herdsman's hut from the Zajamniki pasture, tracing a tradition from the 13th century.
Attractions in Slovenia
The sights to plan a day around, with when to go and how to get there.
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Bled Castle
Bled €€
The oldest castle in Slovenia, with a printing works that demonstrates a replica of a Gutenberg press and a terrace view over the lake, the island and the Julian Alps.
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Bled Island and Church of the Mother of God
Bled €€
Climb 99 stone steps to the island church, ring the wishing bell cast in Padua in 1534 and try potica at Potičnica, including one filled with figs grown on the island.
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Boka Waterfall
Bovec · Soča Valley Free
Described as Slovenia's most water-rich waterfall, it drops 106 m freely and a further 30 m, and is visible from the Bovec-Žaga road with a marked path from the bridge to a panoramic viewpoint.
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Church of St. John the Baptist
Ribčev Laz · Bohinj €
Three St. Christopher paintings in layers on the south outer wall, and inside a white devil whispering to Cain on the triumphal arch; tickets include an audio guide.
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Great Soča Gorge
Bovec · Soča Valley Free
A 750 m gorge of smoothed rock only a few metres wide, with emerald pools; a marked forest path along its left side starts at a wooden hanging bridge, and after rain the walls catch curtains of water.
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Kobarid Museum
Kobarid · Soča Valley €
The museum covers fighting and daily life on the Isonzo Front and the 12th battle, the Miracle of Kobarid; it has won the highest national museum certificate and the Council of Europe Museum Prize.
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Kozjak Waterfall
Kobarid · Soča Valley €
The 15 m fall drops into a green pool inside a rock amphitheatre, reached by an easy path with small wooden bridges; the Soča Valley site says many call it the most beautiful waterfall in Slovenia.
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Lipica Stud Farm
Lipica · Postojna & Karst €€
Home of the Lipizzaner horses on an estate of more than 300 hectares; the ticket includes the stables, Carriage Exhibition, Lipikum Museum and the Church of St Anthony of Padua.
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Ljubljana Castle
Ljubljana €€
Open 365 days a year, the hilltop castle has a funicular, a viewing tower, a Museum of Puppetry and two restaurants, Strelec and Gostilna na Gradu, plus a wine bar inside its walls.
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Ljubljana Central Market
Ljubljana Free
Plečnik designed the riverside colonnade of market halls, built 1940-1944, and from mid-March to the end of October chefs cook at the Friday Open Kitchen on Pogačarjev trg.
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Maribor Castle (Regional Museum)
Maribor €€
The Knights' Hall ceiling has plasterwork by Alessandro Sereni from around 1680, and the rococo staircase carries statues of 16 boys; visits are hourly guided tours in Slovenian and English.
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Mostnica Gorge
Stara Fužina · Bohinj €
A gorge trail of about two and a half hours one way to the Voje Valley and its 21 m waterfall, with guided tours on Tuesdays in July and August.
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Ojstrica Viewpoint
Bled Free
A 20-minute climb to a bench at the top overlooking the lake, Straža, the castle cliff and the Karavanke; the tourist board suggests going early for the sunset.
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Old Vine House
Maribor €€
A Žametovka vine planted at the end of the Middle Ages on a house by the Drava, shown in a depiction from 1657 and entered in the Guinness Book of Records in 2004; the shop sells over 200 Styrian wines.
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Oplen House
Studor v Bohinju · Bohinj €
A long Bohinj farmhouse with living quarters and farm buildings under one roof and a black kitchen restored without a chimney, open to visitors since 1991.
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Piran Town Walls
Piran €
The ticket covers a walk along the old walls with a visit to three of the seven defensive towers, with views over Piran and the surrounding area.
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Planica Nordic Centre
Rateče · Kranjska Gora Free
Entry to the ski flying valley is free; the museum covers 90 years of Planica, a chairlift runs to the ski flying hill, and ski jumping training can be watched from the open venue.
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Plečnik House
Ljubljana €€
Plečnik's authentic home can only be visited on a guided tour for up to seven people, starting every hour on the hour, together with the permanent exhibition on his life and work.
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Pohorje Cable Car
Maribor €€
The circular cable car Pohorska vzpenjača leaves from Pohorska ulica every full hour and reaches slopes used for hiking and cycling in summer and skiing in winter.
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Postojna Cave
Postojna · Postojna & Karst €€€
A 3.7 km ride on the world's only double-track cave railway, then the five-metre white stalagmite called Brilliant and the Dance Hall with its Murano-glass chandeliers.
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Predjama Castle
Predjama · Postojna & Karst €€
Built into the mouth of a cave halfway up a 123-metre cliff, which the park calls the largest cave castle in the world, with the legend of the knight Erazem of Predjama told on the tour.
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Russian Chapel on Vršič
Kranjska Gora Free
Built by Russian soldiers in 1915 and a monument of national importance since 2015, it has an iconostasis altar and wrought-iron chandeliers, with a pyramid-shaped stone tomb beside it.
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Savica Waterfall
Ukanc · Bohinj €
A 78 m waterfall that falls in two legs from the Komarča wall, reached by a trail with many steps from the Koča pri Savici car park.
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Sergej Mašera Maritime Museum
Piran €
Gabrielli Palace shows Piran shipbuilding, fishing, polene (ship figureheads) and ex-votos, and the Slovene seamen 1918-1945; a four-unit ticket adds the museum's other sites.
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Sečovlje Salina Nature Park
Sečovlje · Piran €
One of only two salt-pan areas in the Gulf of Trieste still standing (with Strunjan), where salt is still harvested by hand; walk the abandoned Fontanigge pans among heron meadows.
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Slovenian Alpine Museum
Mojstrana · Kranjska Gora €
Covers Slovenian mountaineering, alpinism and mountain rescue, with virtual experiences, the Escape to the Bivouac game and the Mount Triglav Challenge.
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St George's Church and Bell Tower
Piran €
From the top of the town the view takes in three countries, and the bell tower is a smaller replica of St Mark's in Venice, topped by an Archangel Michael statue that turns with the wind.
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Straža Hill
Bled Free
Reach the top on foot or by chair lift to a monument to the healer Arnold Rikli; a 520 m toboggan track runs down the hill in summer.
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Strunjan Landscape Park
Strunjan · Piran Free
An 80 m flysch cliff above an unspoiled shore in the north, a sea lagoon and working saltpans in the south, and the Green Key label for sustainable operation.
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Tartini Square
Piran Free
A bronze monument from 1896 honours the violinist Giuseppe Tartini, born in 1692 beside the former inner harbour that was filled in to make this white-stone oval square.
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Tivoli Park
Ljubljana Free
Laid out in 1813, the park holds Plečnik's Jakopič Promenade with its open-air gallery, a rose garden with over 160 varieties and Tivoli Mansion at the foot of Rožnik hill.
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Tolmin Gorges
Tolmin · Soča Valley €€
A circular path crosses the Tolminka and Zadlaščica gorges to the Devil's Bridge, 60 m above the river, and to their confluence at 180 m, the lowest point of Triglav National Park.
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Triple Bridge
Ljubljana Free
The central bridge dates from 1842; Plečnik added the two pedestrian side bridges in 1929-1932 with stone balustrades, lamps and stairways down to poplar-planted terraces by the river.
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Vintgar Gorge
Zgornje Gorje · Bled €€
A 1,600 m path of wooden bridges anchored in the rock through the Radovna gorge to the Šum Waterfall, looked after by the Tourist Association Gorje for 130 years.
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Zelenci Nature Reserve
Podkoren · Kranjska Gora Free
Springs at a constant 6 °C rise through lake chalk into an emerald lake that does not freeze; a wooden footbridge and observation tower let you see it, and Humphry Davy visited in 1819, 1827 and 1828.
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Škocjan Caves
Divača · Postojna & Karst €€
The first Slovenian natural site on the UNESCO World Heritage List; the route follows the Reka River through one of Europe's largest underground canyons and crosses the Cerkvenik bridge.
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Vinag Wine Cellar
Maribor €€
The tour goes down 23 steps into the historic Vinag cellar, one of the largest classic wine cellars in Europe, and ends with a tasting of three to five Vinag wines.