Once you're here, one thing you can't help but notice is dragons, dragons everywhere. The fearsome firebreather became a symbol of the city long ago thanks to the ancient Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts, who as the story goes, whilst in search of the legendary Golden Fleece camped out one winter here and here slew a dragon which has become the city's symbol and whose spirit supposedly still guards Ljubljana to this day. You'll see winged lizards everywhere, in both souvenirs and statues - most famously in more than 20 statues on famous Zmajski Most (Dragon Bridge, above) across the Ljubljanica River. Built in 1901 as one of Europe's first concrete spans, it's considered a premier example of the early-20th-century Vienna Succession style (Slovenia was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire).

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