Nearly a third of adult Slovenes pursue an active leisure weekly, including: skiing, walking, horseriding, cycling, canoeing, kayaking, and paragliding. Adrenaline sports are popular…
Cuisine of Slovenia
Slovenian cuisine is diverse for the six topographical areas of the country. A great variety of traditional dishes from the countryside, and also evolved from a highly stratified society…
Wines of Slovenia
The cultivation of wine, ‘Vitis vinifera’ is in evidence at 3,500BC. in Shiraz of ancient Persia. In Slovenia wine was made 2,400 years ago depicted on situla dated 6BC, found in Vače…
Maribor
Maribor is the second largest city of Slovenia, with population of 133,000, capital of Štajerska region. Maribor is located at the centre of five geographic regions, along the Drava River…
Karst caves of Slovenia
Slovenia is the home of karstology, speleology, and speleobiology. The Kras region is a prominent cave research area. Slovenian words are used in the study of caves: dolina, polje, and ponor…