Galeria Sloveniana
Art Nouveau Architecture in Ljubljana
The aim of the Art Nouveau movement was to arouse a sense of beauty in the general public by designing buildings and objects for everyday use. The movement started at the turn of the 20th century and quickly sp more...
Romana Zorzut Favier
Romana was born in 1930 in Biljana, in the region of south-west Slovenia called Goriška Brda. She migrated to Australia in 1951. Romana had always loved painting and enrolled in The George Bell Art School. She more...
Slovenian art in Australia
The exhibition opened on 6th July 2002, at the Slovenian Religious and Cultural Centre SS Cyril and Methodius in Melbourne, on the occasion of the Feast of Saints Cyril and Methodius. The works displayed are by more...
Andrew Potocnik
As artist, I continually find inspiration to explore new directions in creating from wood, as a material that gives expression to our view of the world. I continue to explore all those wonderful qualities every more...
Sloveniana Photolog
Gates and Lanes of Old Ljubljana
Old Ljubljana is a fascinating blend of old and new. The medieval foundations and structures were changed and renovated in subsequent centuries. A walk through "stara Ljubljana" on both sides of the river is a more...
Ljubljanica River
The river Ljubljanica is rightly named for the city Ljubljana to which it has given its character, its charm and its heart. Known as the river of seven names, changing its name every time it surfaces, it start more...
The Krka River
Krka is one of the major rivers of Slovenia and historically one of the water arteries that made the main city of Dolenjska a bustling commercial centre during the Roman period and earlier. Several fields on th more...
Koper, Slovenian Gateway to the Sea
The discovery of the historical city of Koper, which had always had strong Slovenian hinterland, and has become part of the Republic of Slovenia since its independence, has formed in January 2011 part of the di more...
Community Photolog
Slovenia 20th Anniversary
The 20th Anniversary of Slovenia's Independence was celebrated in Melbourne, at Slovenian Religious and Cultural Centre on 26 June 2011 from 12 o'clock on with a cultural program, distinguished guests and a gre more...
25 Anniversary of Slovenian
In 2003 ISSV celebrated 25 years of activity in the field of Slovenian studies in the Australian school system. A cultural event was organized by Aleksandra Ceferin with the assistance of teachers, students and more...
Seminar for Slovenian - 2011
Slovenian Teachers Seminar 2011, organized by Dragica Motik regularly since 1994, and supported by Slovenian government, took place this year in Koper and Ljubljana. Specialist educators introduced techers to a more...
Slovenian Traditional Chests
Slovenian Ethnographic Museum/Slovenski etnografski muzej in Ljubljana guards an enormous number of the treasures of Slovenian etnographic heritage. Many of these are seen rarely, being shown on special occasio more...
Australiana Photolog
The Great Ocean Road Hinterland
The Hinterland of the Great Ocean Road - named Lorne State Park - is a picturesque forested area of valleys, rivers and waterfalls. There are hotels, camping grounds, rest areas, well marked walks, and great more...
Melbourne - city centre
Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, is the second largest city of Australia. Its central district - CBD - is the business, culture and entertainment centre of the well-planned and thriving city, which has been more...
Yellow River, Kakadu National Park
Yellow River is the life blood of the great Kakadu National Park, about 20,000sq km in size and of the great flood plains of the world, rich in fauna and flora, and enjoying plenitude of water riches, even duri more...
The Great Ocean Road
The Great Ocean Road - built after the 1st World War - is one of the greatest tourist attractions of Victoria. With its beautiful ocean beaches, and its scenic forested hinterland - streams, valleys and native more...
Egypt Travelog
Rameses II at Memphis
Memphis, near Cairo, was the capital of the Old Kingdom. Little remains of its ancient glory but a colossal 10.metre limestone statue of Rameses prostrate, sculpted from a single block of calcareous stone orig more...
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo
The museum is located in the centre of Cairo, a red neo-classical building and outstanding in its wealth of ancient Egyptian artifacts, including the golden mummy case of Tutenkahmun and part of his treasures. more...
Alexandria National Museum
The well set out Alexandria Museum, housed in a beautiful Italianate villa, portrays the Pharaonic, the the Greco-Roman, the Islamic and modern periods on three main floors. more...
Edfu - The Temple of Horus
Edfu, know to ancients as Hebau is situated around 100 km south of Luxor, on the west bank of the Nile. It was at one time the capital of Upper Egypt and the house to Horus, the god represented by the falcon wh more...
Slovenian Travelog
Planinsko Polje
Planinsko polje is a typical karstic polje, a natural grassland, on which forest growth has been prevented due to the intermittent flooding.It is 6km long and up to 3.5km wide, with river Unica meandering over more...
Mašun - Beech Forest
Mašun is a beech forest hamlet on the Snežnik plateau, offering a beautiful shadowy ramble in crisp mountain air, and an educational signed pathway, with informative texts on the native plants, animals and bi more...
Ljubljansko Barje
Sasha Ceferin invites you to visit the unique Ljubljansko Barje/Marshes to the south of Ljubljana and enjoy the serene beauty and mystery of the area, with its unique flowering plants, birds and insects, and th more...
Toman Garden in Spring
The full beauty of the hillside garden is revealed in spring, when its construction of pathways, stairways and terraces is revealed, while the first blossoms of spring begin to fill the spaces with their colour more...
Australian Travelog
El Questro Wilderness Park-Chamberlain Gorge
The Chamberlain River is approx. 150 kilometres long and winds through the Kimberley's second-longest range, the Durack range, named after the pioneering Durack family. Almost 130 kilometres of the river winds more...
Yellow River, Kakadu National Park
Yellow River is the life blood of the great Kakadu National Park, about 20,000sq km in size and of the great flood plains of the world, rich in fauna and flora, and enjoying plenitude of water riches, even duri more...
Lake Argyle, Western Australia
Lake Argyle, situated in the north-eastern Kimberley region in Western Australia, is Australia's largest man-made lake. At extreme flood capacity surface area of the lake is 2,062 sq km, lake volume 34,655 cubi more...
Images of the north
To really know Australia is to begin in the north, its tropical forests, its rivers and waterfalls, and its distinct rock formations. The journey then proceeds to the desert and the red heart of the continent - more...
Webzine features
The Škocjan Caves
World heritage site The Škocjan Caves is a natural phenomenon of global significance, ranking side by side with the Grand Canyon, the Galapagos Islands, Mount Everest, and others.
Ranking among the mo more...
Slovenian National Costumes
The Slovenian National Costume Show took place in Ljubljana Castle in March 2011. The Marolt Folklore Dancing Company was to honour the work of Ljuba Vrhovec Pribac, who had beside dancing dedicated ten years o more...
Slovenia - a culinary experience
Slovenian cuisine combines central European knowledge with local experience, and continues to evolve and change. Interest in traditional dishes has revived, and grains such as buckwheat used for their tradition more...
Kavčnik Museum
The Kavčnik homestead with its central part named “dimnica” (smokehouse) takes us back some 400 years. The total life of the farm took its course within the smokehouse.. In this room we meet the history an more...
Contemporary Slovenian Architecture
KSEVT Vitanje
Architectural design of the building. The KSEVT building, with a total internal area of 2,500 square metres, was designed by architectural offices Bevk Perovič arhitekti, Dekleva Gregorič arhitekti, Ofis arh more...
The Library of Grosuplje
The City Library of Grosuplje/Mestna knjžnica Grosuplje was opened to the public in February 2007. It had been planned as a regional centre for culture, information, education, and a social centre for the comm more...
A.biro
The architecture of Abiro established by architects Miloš Florjaničič (1955) and Matej Blenkuš (1971) significantly marked the space of Slovenian contemporary architecture in the past ten years. Their archi more...
Ofis Arhitekti
Ofis Arhitekti, was established in 1996 by Rok Oman and Špela Videčnik, both graduates from the Ljubljana School of Architecture. Before completing their postgraduate studies at London's AA Design Research La more...
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Art Nouveau Architecture in Ljubljana
The aim of the Art Nouveau movement was to arouse a sense of beauty in the general public by designing buildings and objects for everyday use. The movement started at the turn of the 20th century and quickly sp more...
KSEVT Vitanje
Architectural design of the building. The KSEVT building, with a total internal area of 2,500 square metres, was designed by architectural offices Bevk Perovič arhitekti, Dekleva Gregorič arhitekti, Ofis arh more...
Gates and Lanes of Old Ljubljana
Old Ljubljana is a fascinating blend of old and new. The medieval foundations and structures were changed and renovated in subsequent centuries. A walk through "stara Ljubljana" on both sides of the river is a more...
Stična Monastery 2007
The Stična Monastery was established in 1136 and was consecrated in 1156. It has undergone major restoration between 1998 and 2004, which revealed the original structural elements of the Romanesque design. The more...
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