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This is a full directory of all 31 articles about Ljubljana, listed in reverse order, with the most recent article at the top. If you'd prefer to search for some particular article, please use the search facility on the news front page.

A smart card makes it too easy
The Ljubljana Tourist Board has launched Ljubljana Tourist Card, a card which allows tourist to ride buses and grants access to a number of sights around the ci...

City Focus

Airport renovated, plus new link to Barcelona
The main airport in Ljubljana was renovated in mid-April to provide for new runways and taxiways, improvements in flight control and better security throughout ...

City Focus

Airport to be closed in mid-April
Leaving every traveler with anxiety and what seems simply unimaginable for JFK or Heathrow, Ljubljana’s airport will shut down all traffic between 7th and 21st ...

Comment

Christmas and New Year's in Ljubljana
The holiday season is finally upon us, and just as any city with a Christmas tradition, Ljubljana is dressing up for the occasion. By now, the city is filled wi...

City Focus

Tread Your Way Back Up The Tower
To much fanfare Ljubljana Castle's Outlook Tower (Razgledni stolp) reopened last week after a major renovation and re-fit closed it last October. Now visitors ...

Art and Culture

New Slovenia Summer Guide
If you’re reading this, then it’s a fair guess that you’re planning a break to one of Europe’s smallest but loveliest countries. And we’re obviously delighted ...

Art and Culture

Bluetooth's Tourist Tips
Got Bluetooth? Then if you're arriving in Ljubljana at the Jože Pučnik Airport you can get up to the minute tourist information zapped to your mobile just as s...

City Focus

Street naming stirs up old memories
Memories of Slovenia's troubled past were re-awakened last month after the city's council decided to re-name a street 'Titova Cesta', after Tito the president o...

Current Affairs

Come To Ljubljana, Helsinkians!
Yesterday, direct flights to Ljubljana were re-opened by Finnair. The line will only operate during the summer season (until October 23) and it's going to fly 4...

Current Affairs

Pre-Columbian Mexico In Ljubljana
In March Ljubljana will host some of the most exceptional archeological finds from the pre-Columbian era in Mexico. The exhibition, "Pre-Columbian Mexico: Eter...

Art and Culture

Lose It In Ljubljana!
After the "Reader's Digest" magazine conducted an honesty test in the largest cities in over 30 countries, some really great news for the Ljubljana citizens hav...

City Focus

International Film Festival
The 19th edition of the Ljubljana International Film Festival was a great success. All screenings were attended - tickets sold out a few weeks before the event....

Comment

Philharmonic Turns 100
Travellers with a taste for classical music will find some intriguing things on the menu this year. Ljubljana is celebrating the centenary of the Slovenian Phil...

Art and Culture

Ljubljana Man On A Mission
No one was more surprised than the Ljubljana Life team to find out that our very first editor, Kris Mole, long time resident of the city, was embarking on a see...

Comment

Slovenia Unearthing WW2 Past
A new program of the Slovenian government has recently been illuminating the secret, literally buried legacy of mass slaughter in Slovenia after the end of WWII...

History

Torrential Rains Ravage Slovenia
Friday, September 21st was declared a day of national mourning in Slovenia after a brief but unusually violent storm on Tuesday afternoon brought the heaviest r...

Current Affairs

City With a Heart of Gold
Say you were just walking along, humming a tune, watching the girls go by when you spot a cell phone sitting idly, unattended by anyone. Would you pick it up an...

City Focus

New Downloadable Ljubljana PDF Guide!
After months of our cyber mailboxes overflowing with the likes of, "My gosh Ljubljana Life! I love you so much I just want to take you everywhere! If only I cou...

Comment

New law on bilingual signs
The Austrian Constitutional Court published several new rulings which expand the list of towns and villages in the province of Carinthia that ought to have bili...

Comment

Adijo to the Tolar
After 15 years, the first Slovenian currency, the tolar, will gradually disappear from wallets and ATM machines to be replaced by the single European currency, ...

Current Affairs

Ljubljana Police chief pays the price
The police chief of the Slovenian capital Ljubljana has been sacked over the handling of anti-Roma protests at the weekend. Hundreds of residents of Ambrus, a...

Current Affairs

Slovenian Gypsies face hostility
The agony of a group of Roma, driven from their homes by a Slovenian mob last month, continued, as new protests flared in order to prevent them from settling in...

Current Affairs

Ljubljana elects new mayor
An independent candidate who is a foe of the ruling center-right coalition was elected mayor of the capital, Ljubljana, dealing a blow to the government that to...

Current Affairs

30 years for murder
The Ljubljana District Court sentenced 38-year-old Silvo Plut to 30 years in prison for the brutal murder of Ljubica Ulcar and the attempted murder and maltreat...

Current Affairs

The rescue of Tomo Kriznar
Tomo Kriznar, the Slovenian human rights activist who became President Janez Drnovsekís special envoy to the western Sudanese province of Darfur, has finally re...

Current Affairs

Slovenes on trial in Sudan
The government of Slovenia says a special presidential envoy to Sudan is to be tried on charges of espionage and entering Sudan illegally. The envoy, Tomo Kri...

Current Affairs

EU warns Slovenia on Euro prices
The European Commission is urging Slovenia to take measures to prevent shops from using the adoption of the euro to push up prices. The commission wants Slove...

Current Affairs

Slovenia claims Lipizzaner as its own
Slovenia's 20-cent euro coin... Slovenia is using its adoption of the euro currency on 1st January 2007 as a chance to press its claim as the true home of the...

Current Affairs

World Cup fever hits Ljubljana
It's that time again where the whole world forgets about their internal and personal problems and instead focuses their attention to football's World Cup. The...

City Focus

Wizz Air Launches Flights from Ljubljana Airport
Wizz Air, the biggest no-frills airline in Central and Eastern Europe, launched flights from Ljubljana airport to London's Luton and Brussel's Charleroi airport...

Business

More Foreign Carriers for Ljubljana Airport
The company running Slovenia's main airport has concluded 2005 with a record 1,218,896 passengers, an increase of 16.3% over the previous year. Aircraft traffic...

Business

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