Tradition

The Charms of Crafts

Slovenians know how to create art out of everything they love. In addition to artists with various skills and crafts that have been handed down from generation to generation they are also successful in many modern art forms accessible to all generations.

Features

Easter Sunday Customs

April 2012

The Easter period has been connected with the liturgy and folk piety, as well as with a barely transparent array of archaic pagan customs, beliefs and superstitions, a feature particularly typical of Slovenia. Therefore, they have remained very much alive and...

Ljubljana gains a Tobacco Museum

April 2011

Ljubljana has been enriched by yet another cultural development – the doors to the renovated Tobacco Museum, which hosts the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana and Tobačna Ljubljana's museum collection, have opened at the Tobačna 001 Cultural Centre.

Easter dishes

April 2011

Some parts of Slovenia and the neighbouring regions are known for their great variety of Easter dishes, many of which are common to all these regions, but some are special, typical for a particular region and its cultural features, or even of a particular...

Carnival Festivities Getting Under Way

February 2011

There are many different Shrovetide customs and more than one hundred different types of mask in Slovenia, but the most attractive and the most famous can be seen at the Kurentovanje in Ptuj. This year the carnival is expected to attract some 200,000 people.