Located just beyond the market’s eastern boundary the Dragon Bridge was the first major Art Nouveau project to be built in the city. Designed by the architect Jurij Zaninovic, it was built in 1901 to mark the 60th birthday of Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Josef I. The bridge gets its name from the bronze dragons that [...]
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The Dragon Bridge
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 29th 2016
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Be Afraid…
…there be Dragons!!
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 28th 2016
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Piran & Ljubljana 2015
Shoes on High
As I walked around Ljubljana I noticed (what to me) was an unusual sight of shoes dangled across overhead cables and wires. I had never seen anything like it before and was curious to find out why they had been placed in that way. My searches have not revealed how or when this behavior started [...]
15 Comments CherryPie on Jan 26th 2016
Filed under Art, Holidays, Piran & Ljubljana 2015
More Street Art
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 23rd 2016
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More Views…
…from the eleventh floor of The Hotel Park.
The fountain from picture three seen at ground level.
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 21st 2016
