Christ’s birthday is celebrated in the Catholic Europe, and particularly in Central and Western Europe…
Cultural Treasures
Terra Cognita
In its central European space, Slovenia has maintained a powerful sense of national identity, evident in a highly diversified cultural life, and cultural forms nurtured with long traditions …
Slovenian Impressionism
Like Slovenian literature, Impressionism took its place as a contributory force in the cultural development of the Slovenian nation.
Frescoes of Hrastovlje
The eye is assailed by a plethora of images and warm, rich colours, every space and surface aglow with familiar images of Christian iconography
Pre-Christian goddess worship
In the frescoes of Hrastovlje he discovered the representation of an ancient pre-Christian religion of the Goddess, which existed in a matriarchal world order later to be displaced …
Hrastovlje: a Gothic monument
Dance macabre – a rare, well preserved, and complete example of one of the most famous images of medieval iconography.
Stična Abbey
A centre of learning, it surpassed for a period of time in influence and standing Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenian territories.