Slovenija

Slovenia will start campaigning for the United Nations to designate 20 May World Honeybee Day after the government has recently supported a respective initiative by the Slovenian Beekeepers’ Association. Confident that the bid will succeed, officials expect the day could be declared by the first half of 2017. The endorsement of the initiative by the government means the country will ...

Matthew talks about being a big fan of the L.A. Kings hockey team and recalls going to one of the players’ weddings in Slovenia. Source: youtube.com (Jimmy Kimmel Live)

The Slovenian capital Ljubljana will join global festivities of St. Patrick’s Day as two local landmarks, the Ljubljana Castle and the Slovenian Philharmonics building, will be illuminated with green light to celebrate the illustrious Irish holiday. The castle will go green from 12 to 17 March while the Philharmonics building in Kongresni trg square will shine green on Thursday to ...

Slovenian demining experts assisted by members of the Austrian armed forces have cleared the Piran Bay of a 250-kilo bomb from WWII, which was discovered last year but left untouched because it was considered extremely sensitive. The bomb, made in the US, was considered highly explosive because it was originally perceived to have a chemical detonator. However, a second examination, ...

Bernadette Šmon, who is married to noted Australian Slovenian musician Daniel Šmon is now living in Slovenia with her husband and son Luka. She believes that certain aspects of life in Slovenia are indeed better than here in Australia, despite the needless bureacracy and corruption. The same also applies to aspects of life in Australia, that are better here than ...

Slovenia has been placed under alert as heavy snowfall is expected in most of the country during a 24-hour period starting at midday Thursday, with strong winds hitting the western region in particular. The Environment Agency issued an orange alert, its second highest, for most parts of the country for Thursday and for the whole country on Friday as up ...

Slovenia’s most picturesque destination, Bled, is also an ideal spot in winter. The small town, with its clifftop castle and fairylike lake, is an excellent base for active and cultural winter adventures in and around town. Perfect starting point In Bled, a brand new regional tourist and nature conservation information centre has opened its doors to the public. Centre Triglavska ...

Today Slovenia is one of the rare countries in Europe with stabile and one of the most vital brown bear population with an expanding habitat and strongly increasing numerically. The Slovenian brown bear population is very important for the re-introduction of brown bear in Italy, Austria and France. But this was not always so. The brown bear was very common ...

The Slovenian capital Ljubljana posted one million overnight stays in 2014, according to preliminary figures released on Thursday, a new record for a city which has become one of the top tourist destinations in the country. Based on data provided by four in five accommodation providers in the city, the local tourism board puts the number of overnight stays at ...

Slovenia has managed to get EU special status for the Kranjska sausage as the European Commission announced on Wednesday it had approved its addition to the register of Protected Geographical Indications. The popular sausage is the 22nd Slovenian product to be registered with the European Commission and the 11th to have protected geographical indication. The label designates agricultural products or ...