Trails
- Bled is world famous for its glacial lake, its island and castle. Photo: Jakše - Jeršič
Slovenia is a real a mosaic of landscapes. It is proud of its snow-covered mountains and a sea coast caressed by the Mediterranean sun. Beautiful karst caves and thermal springs are just waiting to be discovered. Deep gorges, mountain rivers and slow flatland rivers, mountain lakes and the mysterious Karst, ancient villages and medieval towns, old castles and modern entertainment centres, the warm Adriatic, vineyards – everything is in abundance in Slovenia.
Slovenia is home to more than 15,000 animal species and 3,200 plant species This great number of species in such a small area means that Slovenia's flora and fauna are among the richest in Europe and even in the world. Thus it can be rightly depicted as a European biotic park.
Approximately 11% of Slovenia's territory is specially protected; the largest area with such a regime is the Triglav National Park with a surface area of 848 km2. The Škocjan Caves were entered on the world heritage list at UNESCO in 1986, and the Sečovlje saltpans and Cerknica Lake are included on the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance.
More features
- The Ljubljana Marshes – the romantic entrance hall of the Slovenian capital (October 2011)
- Slovenia is (still) a paradise for mushroom-pickers (October 2009)
- Slovenia caves and their telliness (September 2011)
- Happy Bled (June 2010)
- Lipikum - The Lipizzaner Museum (July 2011)
- Beekeeping in Slovenia (October 2009)
- 430 years of Lipica Stud Farm (June 2010)
- 200th Anniversary of the Ljubljana Botanical Garden (May 2010)
- Bela Krajina (April 2010)
- The salt works in Sečovlje (July2009)
- TripTracker web service (January 2009)
- Križna Cave - Undiscovered Beauty
- Piran - a Pearl of the Slovenian Mediterranean (July 2008)
- Cerknica Lake - Lake that vanishes
- Visiting the Brown Bear
Features
Idrija Mercury Mine Listed on UNESCO Heritage List
July 2012
On 2 July, 2012 in Saint Petersburg, UNESCO's World Heritage Committee decided to include Idrija's mercury mine along with the mine in Spain's Almaden on its world heritage list. The join bid of Slovenia and Spain focused on the...
Wild flowers of Bohinj
June 2012
The mountains are stunning in June, covered with the delicate blossoms of wild flowers, some of which grow only in the Slovenian Alps. The natural beauty of the mountains rising above Bohinj remains intact; flowers bloom, and for...
The castle which marks the city
March 2012
The first references to the medieval town of Ljubljana were recorded in the twelfth century and the history tells us that, at that time, a small wooden fort was already located on the hill. However, the first explicit mention of...
Slovenian days in Milan
February 2012
Between 10 February and 1 April 2012, Slovenia is being showcased in Milan and Lombardy; the main events of the presentation take place between 10 and 19 February. The tourist, economic, cultural and political presentation of...
»Comfortably at home« in Ivančna Gorica
January 2012
Just a quarter of an hour after leaving the ring road of Ljubljana, travelling on the motorway south-east, you come upon a region which could hardly be more authentically Slovene – Ivančna Gorica. You've only just left the bustle...
The Ljubljana Marshes – the romantic entrance hall of the Slovenian capital
November 2011
The Ljubljana Marshes are a vast marshy plain extending over approximately 150 square kilometers from the southern suburbs of Ljubljana to the first foothills of the mountains in the south. In past decades, the Ljubljana Marshes...