Much of this small Balkan is very Alpine – as in, its Julian Alps make up the southeastern part of Europe´s Alps – and boasts more than a dozen ski resorts, but four main ones.
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By contrast, this town of around 13,000 was established only in 1947, after World War II, when a border was established between Gorizia and its outlying districts, which were ceded to Yugoslavia. And it´s developed into a vibrant modern city
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Slovenian cuisine is having a moment, and I just came across this BBC article about a Slovenian chef whose restaurant Hiša Franko in the alpine Soča Valley received the country's first Michelin stars. It's well worth a read!
With quaint medieval and pretty Austro-Hungarian buildings lining the Ljubljanica river, its hill-top castle, and surrounding Alpine mountains, Ljubljana is one of the most picturesque capitals in Europe. It is also one of the most advanced when
They say great things come in small packages, and that is certainly true for the Balkan country Slovenia. Considering it’s such a small country (thirteen times smaller than New Zealand), there is a surprising variety of traditional Slovenian dishes
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A half hour drive from Ljubljana's Brnik Airport, this town is completely covered in snow during the winter and looks like a another world altogether, with nothing but a beautiful little church in the middle of it all. Winter here is i
It's still winter, of course, and we've been reading about (and a lucky some of us even participating in) the frosty fun for which Europe's most extensive mountain range system is famous. But summer is coming, too, and it's not too early to consider
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One of Iberia's newest destinations, with direct flights from Madrid during the summer, Slovenia is a little jewel of an Alpine country, once part of communist Yugoslavia and now a prosperous member of the European Union, landlocke
