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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
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
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
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
Hospital Olympic Games. Photo: Bor Slana/STA

For the past three decades Slovenia has been organising an annual Olympic Games-themed event for children whose health condition means they are away from school a lot. Taking place at a major rehabilitation centre, this year's event featured 42 children participating in three sports disciplines.

The 1 May Square in Piran. Photo: nschuwi/Wikimedia
A small but iconic square in the heart of Piran has become Slovenia's first location to make the Treasures of European Film Culture, a list of symbolic places of European cinema compiled by the European Film Academy to highlight the need to maintain and protect them.
The 1 May Square is best known
A colorised rendition of Wilhelm Helfer's photo of Stritar Street right after the earthquake, with Ljubljana castle in the background. Photo: Courtesy of the National and University Library
A major earthquake hit the Slovenian capital Ljubljana on Easter Sunday 130 years ago. Many images chronicling the aftermath have survived, and some have now come alive thanks to the latest advances in technology.
The National and University Library has deployed artificial intelligence to add colou
A border collie taking part in a sheepdog trial at Ig. Photo: Jakob Pintar/STA
Fans of border collies should head for the Sheepdog Centre in Ig near Ljubljana this weekend to see them demonstrate their herding skills at an international sheepdog trial.
Organised by the Slovenian Sheepdog Club, the only such competition in the country features 45 handlers with 56 dogs from Aus
The first park in Slovenia named after a lesbian couple, Ada Škerl and Sonja Plaskan. Photo: Jure Makovec/STA
The LGBTQ+ community in Slovenia is celebrating a milestone recognition move as a small park in a central Ljubljana borough has been named in honour of a lesbian intellectual couple who were together for almost half a century. A lesbian activist described the experience as cathartic.
Located in the
Self-portrait by Zoran Mušič (1909-2005) at the National Gallery. Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA
Zoran Mušič (1909-2005), an internationally acclaimed modernist painter and printmaker, will be honoured with a series of exhibitions in Slovenia and Italy as Nova Gorica and Gorizia have come together as the first cross-border European Capital of Culture.
Born to Slovenian parents in the Slovenian
Caged egg-producing hens. Photo: The Animal Enterprise Transparency Project (AETP)
The farm where egg-laying hens had been secretly filmed in appalling conditions by an animal welfare group has been slapped with a fine and those in charge have been reported to the prosecution for falsely labelling their eggs as organic, according to the newspaper Dnevnik.
The paper says the Admin
US-based researcher Polona Šafarič Tepeš focuses on women's health. Photo: Courtesy of Polona Šafarič Tepeš
A long sidelined and underfunded area, women's health is the focus of work of US-based Slovenian researcher Polona Šafarič Tepeš. She is currently developing a breakthrough non-invasive test for endometriosis, a disease that affects millions of women.
Šafarič Tepeš, who obtained a PhD from the Ljub