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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.