April 22, 2018. As promised in our last Recipe of the Week, we will prepare bakalca this week, the favourite companion of žlikrofi on a plate.. Bakalca, not surprisingly, also originates from Idrija, ...

February 7, 2018. Here’s a short documentary on čefuri, broadly defined as working class people from, or with parents from, one of the other former Yugoslav states.The film interviews various young ...

March 24, 2019. In our previous recipe for matevž, we wrote that it is usually served with boiled sauerkraut or sour turnip and pečenica sausage.. A reader asked us how sauerkraut or sour turnip is ...

During the last months of World War II, several airstrikes were carried out on the mining town of Idrija, destroying a good part of the settlement and taking the lives of many of its citizens.

Barley, one of the oldest cultivars in the world, has been known in Eurasia for about 10,000 years. Its variety of uses should therefore not be surprising. Barley has been used for food and livestock ...

STA, 21 April 2022 - The German news agency dpa has reported that Germany has concluded an agreement to send heavy weapons to Ukraine with several other European countries, including Slovenia, which ...

The small store in the Old Town that delights generations.  January 24, 2018 Ristanc is a small space packed with a lovingly curated collection of both classic and innovative toys, all selected, ...

STA, 3 March 2021 - The national Seismology Office has presented a new seismic hazard map for Slovenia, taking into account the latest seismic and geo-tectonic data.The upgraded danger levels and risk ...

When it was built in 1933 Nebotičnik – the name means skyscraper in Slovene – was the tallest building in the Balkans, and remained the tallest in downtown Ljubljana until 2017. That said, the appeal ...

Merlene Ottey, one of the best, if not the best, female sprinters of all time, is 57 years old at the moment, lives in Ljubljana, and continues to run. Her last performance that we managed to find on ...

August 2, 2018 While Bregana may be the biggest border crossing between Croatia and Slovenia, there are no fewer than 47 others between the two countries that you can use. Some of the bigger ones are ...

If your experience of Slovenia is anything like mine you’ll have friends and family who live in the country, know the land well, and are accomplished foragers, bringing home mushrooms, herbs, flowers, ...