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Bridges and Dragons self guided tour of Ljubljana
Ljubljana
Important Information
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Service animals allowed
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Public transportation options are available nearby
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Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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Ljubljana is a city you can walk across in fifteen minutes. But the river that runs through its heart has pulled bakers off bridges, carried a heartbroken mayor to his death, and inspired Slovenia's greatest poem. This self guided audio tour tells you why.
Twenty stops through the historic centre, from Prešeren Square to the Dragon Bridge. Meet the poet who immortalised two women who rejected him. Watch Plečnik, the architect who quietly remade an entire city, leave his fingerprints on everything from the bridges to the library to the open air theatre. Visit the fountain that bankrupted the sculptor who built it, the square where Napoleon's legacy shaped modern Slovenian identity, and the s...
Highlights
From 2 hours to 4 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 2 hours to 4 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
100% Satisfaction Guarantee: If you don’t love the tour, write to us for a full refund.
1-year access to audio on iOS & Android. Listen to the tour anytime, as many times as you like
Audio and written guide included
Offline access to the tour (no internet connection needed) once tour is downloaded
Images to identify stops and in app interactive map for navigation
Any physical devices or headphones
Human tour guide at location
Meeting Points
Departure
Prešernov trg
This is a self-guided audio tour on your self-guided tour app. To activate the tour, check your email for instructions from us sent right after booking. Can’t find it? Search for your company in your email inbox and spam folder. OR contact us via support.
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Ljubljana Castle
Bridges and Dragons self guided tour of Ljubljana
Ljubljana
About
Ljubljana is a city you can walk across in fifteen minutes. But the river that runs through its heart has pulled bakers off bridges, carried a heartbroken mayor to his death, and inspired Slovenia's greatest poem. This self guided audio tour tells you why.
Twenty stops through the historic centre, from Prešeren Square to the Dragon Bridge. Meet the poet who immortalised two women who rejected him. Watch Plečnik, the architect who quietly remade an entire city, leave his fingerprints on everything from the bridges to the library to the open air theatre. Visit the fountain that bankrupted the sculptor who built it, the square where Napoleon's legacy shaped modern Slovenian identity, and the s...
Highlights
From 2 hours to 4 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 2 hours to 4 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
100% Satisfaction Guarantee: If you don’t love the tour, write to us for a full refund.
1-year access to audio on iOS & Android. Listen to the tour anytime, as many times as you like
Audio and written guide included
Offline access to the tour (no internet connection needed) once tour is downloaded
Images to identify stops and in app interactive map for navigation
Any physical devices or headphones
Human tour guide at location
Meeting Points
Departure
Prešernov trg
This is a self-guided audio tour on your self-guided tour app. To activate the tour, check your email for instructions from us sent right after booking. Can’t find it? Search for your company in your email inbox and spam folder. OR contact us via support.
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Ljubljana Castle
Itinerary
1
Preseren Square
Meet Slovenia's greatest poet and the woman who rejected him, immortalised in stone across the square.
5 minutes
2
Franciscan Church of the Annunciation
Step into a salmon coloured Baroque church where the bones of a French bishop rest in a glass coffin.
5 minutes
3
Congress Square (Kongresni trg)
Learn how Ljubljana hosted Europe's most powerful kings for five months of post Napoleonic politics.
5 minutes
4
University of Ljubljana
Stand below the balcony where Tito delivered a speech that reshaped Yugoslavia.
5 minutes
5
Slovenian Philharmonic Hall (Slovenska Filharmonija)
Discover the small city orchestra that received fan mail from Beethoven, Haydn, Paganini, and Brahms.
5 minutes
6
National and University Library
Admire Plečnik's masterpiece, built with Roman wall fragments set into its red brick façade.
5 minutes
7
French Revolution Square (Trg Francoske Revolucije)
Find out why a Slovene city raised a column to honour Napoleon Bonaparte.
5 minutes
8
Krizanke Church
Wander through a crusader monastery turned open air theatre by Slovenia's most beloved architect.
5 minutes
9
Spominski steber z Marijinim kipom
Hear how a Protestant general saved Catholic Europe from the Ottomans at the Battle of Sisak.
5 minutes
10
Old Square (Stari trg)
Visit the spot where, according to legend, a young woman was danced into the river by the Water Man.
5 minutes
11
Cobblers' Bridge
Learn how cheating bakers were dunked into the river, and why a heartbroken mayor drowned here.
5 minutes
12
Locksmith Alley
Find seven hundred bronze faces embedded in stone, inspired by a poem of Rainer Maria Rilke.
5 minutes
13
Robbov vodnjak
See the marble masterpiece that bankrupted its Venetian sculptor.
5 minutes
14
Cathedral of St. Nicholas
Examine the bronze doors that retell twelve hundred years of Slovenian Christianity. Look up at a dome that, for over a century, was nothing but a painted illusion.
5 minutes
15
Triple Bridge (Tromostovje)
Cross Plečnik's UNESCO listed solution to a traffic problem, three bridges where one once stood.
5 minutes
16
Mesarski most
Find Adam, Eve, and a disembowelled Prometheus in bronze, beside a parapet of love padlocks.
5 minutes
17
Central Market
Taste Carniolan sausage, štruklji dumplings, and milk from a vending machine that runs day and night.
5 minutes
18
Dragon Bridge (Zmajski Most)
Meet the four bronze dragons that, locals say, wag their tails when a virgin walks past.
5 minutes
19
Ljubljana Castle
End with a view up to a hilltop fortress that has guarded the city for nearly three thousand years.
