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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...

Žganci – always and forever

April 2011

As children we were told: “Eat some more žganci and you’ll be big and strong!” So žganci was imprinted in our memory as a healthy food that gives us strength and energy, as food that people used to enjoy and still do. If you...

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...

Dubravka Tomšič: the Piano is her Love

April 2011

Some 65-odd years ago, she gave her first piano recital as a tiny little girl. She was a prodigy. That was the start of the extraordinary career of our indisputable first lady of music – pianist Dubravka Tomšič. It seems...

Mysterious pile-dwellers, a revelation about prehistoric people in the Ljubljansko barje

April 2011

While pharaohs commissioned the building of huge pyramids for their afterlife and ruthlessly exploited their people to this end, some European tribes were much wiser. They are called pile-dwellers or lake-dwellers and in Slovene...

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