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Ljubljana (Ljubljana), with its 300,000 inhabitants, is the largest city and capital of Slovenia. Already since Roman times onwards, when you still called Emona, Ljubljana was a political and administrative center. In the thirteenth century (year 1220) received citizens' rights and towards the middle of the century, was cited as the city behind the walls. In the fifteenth century, became the seat of the diocese and had the characteristic appearance of the medieval towns and commercial craft.

Ljubljana is closely linked to the north, with the towns beyond the Alps, the Austrian Carinthia and Lower Austria, and south to Venice, the Italian cities. Ljubljana has always been an important cultural center in Slovenia: in the sixteenth century, the Slovenes received the first book in Slovenian, in the year 1693 was founded the Academia Operosorum (Academy of Sciences) and a few years later (in 1701) Academia philharmonicorum, today Slovenska Filharmonija (Among its honorary members was also Ludwig van Beethoven).

But the real national progress and cultural smiled at the city only after the establishment of Napoleon's Illyrian Provinces (1809-1813), which have enabled her to school education, including university in the Slovenian language, and to publish newspapers and books Slovenia. Derived from this fact, then, the sympathy and gratitude of the Slovenes to Napoleon, who erected a monument in the center of Ljubljana, It bears the exclamation of the Slovenian poet: "Napoleon exhorts raised llliria," In the year 1895 Ljubljana was hit by a catastrophic earthquake, which caused the collapse of many buildings. Reconstruction of the city worked the architect Maks Fabiani, but the basics of Ljubljana 'modern' were laid, later, by architect Joze Plecnik.

The Ljubljana today is a pleasant town, not too big, which beats the modern pace yet, here, this coexists with the past. The old village is largely preserved and a walk through its streets you will discover the beauty of baroque portals, Town Hall, the Fountain of the three rivers in Slovenia by Francesco Robba and the Cathedral.