In Slovenia, All Saints' Day, celebrated on 1 November as a public holiday, is a major cultural touchstone for believers and non-believers alike. Families will visit the final resting places of their loved ones after spending days carefully cleaning the tombstones and decorating the graves with flowers and candles, and remembering even distant relatives and friends by lighting a candle on their grave.

People work hard to clean and decorate the graves of their lived ones ahead of All Saints' Day. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA

A typical grave in Slovenia will have a marble headstone. Especially around All Saints' Day, the graves are adorned with candles and flowers. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA

Graves are often decorated with lavish bouquets brought to cemeteries a few days before All Saints' Day. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA

Chrysanthemums are among the most popular flowers to put on a grave on All Saints' Day. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA

Florists have permanent shops in front of large cemeteries to sell flowers and Bouquets, for example at the Pobrežje Cemetery in Maribor. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA

Lighting a candle is the most common way to remember the dead. Slovenians are among the biggest consumers of candles in the world, and two-thirds of the estimated 16 million candles bought each year are put on graves around 1 November. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA

Another deeply rooted tradition is senior officials honouring the dead at public monuments. Here, President Nataša Pirc Musar lays a wreath at the Monument to Victims of All Wars and War-Related Victims in Congress Square in Ljubljana. Photo: Katja Kodba/STA