![]() ![]() The impressive main and side doors of the Church of St Nicholas, aka Ljubljana Cathedral, were installed in 1996 and mark the visit of Pope John Paul II. Here’s a video of a happy man eating food there. Mr Vodnik also lives on in the name of the restaurant nearby his statue – Vodnikov hram. The first headmaster of this institution was Valentin Vodnik, whose statue, erected in 1929, is all that seems to remain of the school that collapsed due the tremors. The Lyceum, around 1850, with the Cathedral in the background One piece of trivia related to this is about the Lyceum that was once where the market now stands. While known for its peace and quiet, if you feel a little wobbly in town then it might be the ground and not your legs, as earthquakes are not unknown, Indeed, the last big one that hit, in 1895, brought down many buildings and changed the face of the city. You can learn more about this history of education here at the Slovenian School Museum, itself founded in 1898. By contrast, in 2016 it had 40,110 students, including 2,345 from outside Slovenia. ![]() Moreover, the University, which now seems to dominate the city, was only founded in 1919, with just 942 students in the first year, only 28 of whom were female. ![]() However, compulsory education for children aged 6–12 wasn’t established until 1774, and the first secondary school not opened until 1851, with compulsory eight-year education finally arriving in 1958. Even part of Križanke is given over to a school, while a dormitory for medical students sits above Zvezda Café. These days in Ljubljana you’re probably never more than 10 meters away from a student in term time. This was once part of larger structure, the lower part of which sits in Krekov trg, in front of the Puppet Theatre, now enlivened with the addition of a sculpture of Sapramiška, a mouse from a classic children’s tale. ![]() The lovely fountain at the bottom of the square is more recent, however, from the 17 th century. Novi trg, or New Square, is only relatively new, as it was already well settled in Medieval times, and is only young compared to Stari trg, or Old Square, in the Old Town, which is actually more like a street connecting the Mestni trg and Gornji trg. One sign of the esteem in which the Philharmonia has long been held is the fact that its archive has a copy of Beethoven’s 6 th Symphony, written in 1808 and sent by the composer, including his own annotations. The building itself was put up in 1891, and is just one of the many performance spaces in a city known for its musicians. The Philharmonia building in Kongresni trg (aka Zvezda Park) has a prominent 1701 on the front, but this is not the year when this structure was built, only when Music Academy was established, in the baroque era. Despite this, the first public baths were introduced in 1260.Ģ. In fact, it was only in 1625 that a law was passed ordering people to take their waste out of the city at least twice a week, while it was not until 1784 that another law was passed ordering all swine to be kept in pigsties. Ljubljana won the title of European Green Capital in 2016, and remains a leading city in terms of environmental good practices, but it wasn’t always so. Although far from exhaustive, here’s a list of some surprising facts about Slovenia’s main city. But nowhere as old as Ljubljana, or with such a varied history, with so many empires and invaders passing through, is without it’s oddities and secrets. Central Ljubljana is so small it’s easy to think you can know it all in a day or two, when you’ve chosen a favourite café and learned how to negotiate the odd opening hours of the stores, so short for a capital city. ![]()
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