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Ljubljana is a city you can walk across in fifteen minutes. But the river that runs through its heart has pulled bakers off bridges, carried a heartbroken mayor to his death, and inspired Slovenia's greatest poem. This self guided audio tour tells you why.
Twenty stops through the historic centre, from Prešeren Square to the Dragon Bridge. Meet the poet who immortalised two women who rejected him. Watch Plečnik, the architect who quietly remade an entire city, leave his fingerprints on everything from the bridges to the library to the open air theatre. Visit the fountain that bankrupted the sculptor who built it, the square where Napoleon's legacy shaped modern Slovenian identity, and the street with seven hundred bronze faces in the stone.
The tour runs two to three hours, works in nine languages on your phone, and starts whenever you're ready.
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Itinerary
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1Preseren Square
Meet Slovenia's greatest poet and the woman who rejected him, immortalised in stone across the square.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
2Franciscan Church of the Annunciation
Step into a salmon coloured Baroque church where the bones of a French bishop rest in a glass coffin.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
3Congress Square (Kongresni trg)
Learn how Ljubljana hosted Europe's most powerful kings for five months of post Napoleonic politics.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
4
Stand below the balcony where Tito delivered a speech that reshaped Yugoslavia.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
5
Discover the small city orchestra that received fan mail from Beethoven, Haydn, Paganini, and Brahms.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
6National and University Library
Admire Plečnik's masterpiece, built with Roman wall fragments set into its red brick façade.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
7French Revolution Square (Trg Francoske Revolucije)
Find out why a Slovene city raised a column to honour Napoleon Bonaparte.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
8
Wander through a crusader monastery turned open air theatre by Slovenia's most beloved architect.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
9
Hear how a Protestant general saved Catholic Europe from the Ottomans at the Battle of Sisak.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
10Old Square (Stari trg)
Visit the spot where, according to legend, a young woman was danced into the river by the Water Man.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
11
Learn how cheating bakers were dunked into the river, and why a heartbroken mayor drowned here.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
12
Find seven hundred bronze faces embedded in stone, inspired by a poem of Rainer Maria Rilke.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
13
See the marble masterpiece that bankrupted its Venetian sculptor.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
14Cathedral of St. Nicholas
Examine the bronze doors that retell twelve hundred years of Slovenian Christianity. Look up at a dome that, for over a century, was nothing but a painted illusion.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
15Triple Bridge (Tromostovje)
Cross Plečnik's UNESCO listed solution to a traffic problem, three bridges where one once stood.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
16
Find Adam, Eve, and a disembowelled Prometheus in bronze, beside a parapet of love padlocks.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
17
Taste Carniolan sausage, štruklji dumplings, and milk from a vending machine that runs day and night.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
18Dragon Bridge (Zmajski Most)
Meet the four bronze dragons that, locals say, wag their tails when a virgin walks past.
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19Ljubljana Castle
End with a view up to a hilltop fortress that has guarded the city for nearly three thousand years.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free
Additional info
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Cancellation Policy
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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