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Monument marking the site of a 1945 crash of a Royal Australian Air Force P-51 Mustang. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA
Eighty years after his life was saved by Slovenian villagers and resistance fighters, an Australian pilot has been honoured at the very site where his plane went down in the dying days of the Second World War.
One of many allied fliers who flew sorties over Slovenia, Royal Australian Air Force pilo
Cyclist in Ljubljana. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA

Gamifying urban mobility

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More than half of trips people make every day are shorter than two kilometres, so why not walk or cycle for at least some of them? That is the idea behind a national initiative dubbed Let's Bike to Work Full of Momentum, which is returning this spring for the fourth time and is open to both busines
A brown bear with her cubs in the Kočevje forest reserve. Photo:Xinhua/STA

Slovenia has one of the largest brown bear populations in Europe and brown bear numbers have been rising steadily. The latest research shows that bear numbers will hit a record level this spring.


Genetic census estimates put the number of brown bears in Slovenia at 695-797 at the end of 2023, wh
One of the works exhibited at the new Muza gallery. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
NLB, Slovenia's largest bank, has amassed Slovenia's largest private collection of art over several decades of purchasing works by modern and contemporary authors. The artworks, long hidden from public view, are now on show in a dedicated gallery in the centre of Ljubljana.
The gallery called Muza
A plaque dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini in Idrija. Photo: Milanka Trušnovec

Idrija, a town in western Slovenia, is well known for its abandoned mercury mine, lace-making tradition and delicious žlikrofi dumplings, but there is another, little-known fact about the picturesque town: in the early 1930s, it was home to the young Pier Paolo Pasolini, the prolific Italian poet,
Nina Pušlar, the top ranked Slovenian artist in the airplay charts, performs in a sold-out Stožice Arena in December 2023. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA
Foreign artists continue their dominance of Slovenian airwaves. In 2024 fewer that one in three songs played on the radio were Slovenian, the lowest share since statistics began 15 years ago.
Ten years ago the share of Slovenian music peaked at almost 43%, but since then it has been more or less co
Občice, one of the five Gottschee villages in the municipality of Dolenjske Toplice with an info board on its history. Photo: Aleš Kocjan/STA
There is a small ethnic community in south Slovenia that not many know about called the Gottscheers. Traces of their heritage are disappearing, but now they are becoming more visible once again.
Only a third of 176 Gottschee villages in Slovenia have been preserved, and only a few hundred Gottschee
Aleš Šteger at a literary event in 2024. Photo: Katja Kodba/STA
Writer Aleš Šteger has received the Prix Max Jacob Etranger poetry award, one of the most prestigious poetry awards in the French-speaking world. He was honoured for his selected poems Nad nebom pod zemljo (Above the Sky Beneath the Earth or Au-delà du ciel sous la terre), which have been translate
Industrial heritage museum at the Doblar hydro plant. Photo courtesy of SENG

Historic hydro plant home to new technical heritage museum

CultureEuropean Capital of Culture 2025
Blending industrial innovation with historical preservation, the Doblar hydro power plant on the Soča has unveiled a museum dedicated to the technical heritage of hydropower. The new museum invites the public to explore the fascinating story behind one of Slovenia's oldest energy facilities.
The po
The main building of the National Large Wildfire Centre in Sežana. Photo: Matej Arh/STA

Slovenia opens wildfire training centre

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In a move to strengthen Europe's fire-response capabilities, Slovenia has launched a National Large Wildfire Centre in Sežana. The facility aims to train 1,000 firefighters within its first year and extend support to neighbouring nations.
The centre will not only help Slovenia but also allow it to
A tactile structure by Slovenian sculptor Prmož Pugelj. Photo: STA

Art meets touch: Slovenia's first tactile gallery

CultureEuropean Capital of Culture 2025
Slovenia's first tactile gallery has opened in Nova Gorica municipality, offering blind and sighted visitors alike a fresh, hands-on encounter with iconic artworks spanning centuries.
The Tactile Gallery, located in a shopping centre in Kromberk and run by the regional Goriška Museum, features work
Three iron knives found in a Roman grave in the Budanje area. Photo: Ladislav Duranka
The last major Roman civil war is thought to have been fought in the Vipava area in today's western Slovenia in 394. While written records of the Battle of the Frigidus exist, its exact location could not have been pinpointed so far for lack of material evidence. Yet the most recent archaeological