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The Franciscan Church of the Annunciation (Slovene: Frančiškanska cerkev Marijinega oznanjenja or commonly Frančiškanska cerkev) is a Franciscan church located on Prešeren Square in Ljubljana, the capital ofSlovenia. It is the parish church of Ljubljana – Annunciation Parish. Its red colour is symbolic of the Franciscan monastic order.[1] Since 2008, the church has been protected as a cultural monument of national significance [...]

12 Comments CherryPie on Mar 29th 2016

Located between Ljubljana’s Old Town and the 19th-century districts on the west bank of the ljubljanica river, Prešernov trg is, in many ways, the symbolic heart of the city. It is named after  France Prešeren, the Romantic poet whose patriotic verses were central to the development of a Slovenian national consciousness. The poet is immortalized [...]

4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 28th 2016

A bronze sculpture by Stojan Batič.
Batič was born in a working-class family in Trbovlje, a mining town in central Slovenia, then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Already as a teenager, he worked in the local coal mine. At the age of 19, he joined the partisan resistance, which fought the Nazi German forces. After World War [...]

8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 19th 2016

In line with the first project prepared in 1918, LJUBLJANSKA KREDITNA BANKA (LKB) planned to construct buildings on the entire ground of the former Austrian military supply warehouse (Militär-Verpflegungsmagazin). This included the block between Tyrševa (now Slovenska Cesta) and Beethovnova Ulica, and between Kidričeva (now Štefanova Ulica) and Cankarjeva Ulica. The project was never realised: [...]

2 Comments CherryPie on Feb 13th 2016

The most vibrantly decorated building in downtown Ljubljana, the Cooperative Bank was designed by Ivan Vurnik (1884-1971)m a Radovljica-born architect who studied under Otto Wagner, the doyen of Viennese Art Nouveau. Vurnik was keen to develop a Slovenian national style of architecture by blending traditional folk motifs with the best in modern design; this building [...]

10 Comments CherryPie on Feb 12th 2016

12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 10th 2016

A modernist block of concrete and glass designed by the architect Vinko Glanz in 1960, the political heart of Slovenia resembles a typical office building. However, the Sloven and European Union flags near the entrance hint at its importance.
The sculpted figures on the building’s facade comprise on of former Communist Europe’s more artistic statements. The [...]

8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 9th 2016

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