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The Ingeborg Bachmann Dome in Nova Gorica. Photo: GO! 2025 Institute

Ingeborg Bachmann Dome relocates to Nova Gorica

CultureEuropean Capital of Culture 2025
An installation dedicated to the Austrian writer and poet Ingeborg Bachmann has been put up in Nova Gorica to serve as a place for reflection and various events as part of the first cross-border European Capital of Culture until the end of autumn.
A temporary gift of the Carinthian Cultural Foundat
President Nataša Pirc Musar and PM Robert Golob. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA
Slovenia's president and parliament have been unable to break the deadlock over two key appointments as a result of which the central bank and the human rights watchdog have been under interim leadership for months.
The six-year term of the most recent governor of Bank of Slovenia, Boštjan Vasle, e
Tadej Pogačar at the finish line of La Flèche Wallonne. Photo: X profile of UAE Team Emirates

Slovenia's cycling superstar Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) has won the one-day classic La Flèche Wallonne, crushing his rivals on the famous final Mur de Huy climb to claim his second victory at this prestigious race after 2023.


Racing in the event for the sixth time, the world's no. 1 c
Pope Francis laid in an open casket. Photo: ANSA/Vatican media
Slovenia will observe a national day of mourning for Pope Francis on 26 April, the day of his funeral, as a mark of respect and gratitude for his life's work.
According to a decision taken by the government, flags at all state institutions will be flown at half mast on the day of mourning.
The gove
Cortina d'Ampezzo will host the 2026 Winter Olympic Games together with Milan. Photo: Jernej Šmajdek/STA
Slovenia will have its national house at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in neighbouring Italy located in the centre of Cortina d'Ampezzo, one of the host cities along with Milan.
Slovenia House will be located in the popular Janbo pub in the vicinity of the official fan zone and national houses of o
A mockup of the Emonika complex, which will feature the first Tribe Hotel in Slovenia. Photo: Emonika

First Tribe hotel to open in Slovenia

BusinessInvestment & Real Estate
The first of the two hotels planned at an emerging commercial complex next to Ljubljana's future passenger terminal is to open at the end of 2027 under the Australian brand Tribe.
Built by Mendota Invest, a company owned by the Hungarian bank OTP, Emonika will feature two hotels, a shopping centre,
Last registered location of a plane that crashed on the Velika Planina plateau. Photo: Flightradar
An initial report into the 10 March plane crash at Velika Planina that killed Swedish businessman and former politician Carl Lundström has confirmed weather conditions were unfavourable for flying, but does not yet formally conclude poor weather as the most likely cause of the accident.
The flight
Fuel nozzles at a service station. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
Fuel prices in Slovenia will drop to more than 12-month lows on 23 April. Regular petrol sold off the motorway network will come 7.8 cents cheaper, at €1.417 per litre, and the price of diesel will be marked down by 8.1 cents to €1.443 per a litre.
The new prices, which apply until 5 May, were anno
One of the potica's that was sent to Pope Francis for what would be his last Christmas. Photo: Gregor Mlakar/STA
Jorge Mario Bergoglio did not visit Slovenia as pope but he did visit as a Jesuit priest in his 30s when he had his first taste of potica - a pastry that he came to love and would forever associate with Slovenia.
The future pope visited Slovenia for the first time in 1970 when he spent a week with
Janez Janša, the leader of the opposition Democratic Party, addresses his supporters outside the Celje courthouse after his acquittal in the Trenta case. Photo: Lili Pušnik/STA
Slovenian opposition leader Janez Janša has been acquitted in a case in which he stood accused of being an accessory to abuse of office and faced two years in jail, a decision he says did little to make up for years of harassment.
The acquittal came "after almost fifteen years of interrogations, tr
The food hall at the Maximarket department store. Photo: Nik Jevšnik/STA
Water contaminated with E.coli bacteria and sapovirus has sickened over 350 people in a posh department store in the centre of Ljubljana, including members of parliament and employees of the country's largest bank.
The Maximarket department store detected an infection of unknown origin among its cu
Fiorentina forward Moise Kean battles it out with Celje defender Žan Karničnik in the return leg of the UEFA Conference League in Florence. Photo: ANSA/STA

Slovenian football champions Celje conceded to heavily favoured Italian side Fiorentina in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Conference League, but they left the pitch in high spirits as the first Slovenian club to make the quarter-finals of a major European competition.
The Slovenian side held Fiore