Slovenija
Slovenia
Four regions, and a country you can cross in three hours.
- Currency
- EUR
- Emergency
- 112
- Driving
- right · vignette required
- Peak season
- July, August
Ljubljana & Central Slovenia
The capital and its ring of hills and castles. Compact, walkable, and within 90 minutes of almost anywhere else in the country.
Ljubljana
A capital small enough to cross on foot, shaped by one architect: Jože Plečnik, whose bridges, market colonnade and riverbanks are now UNESCO-listed.
1,188 places · 2–3 nights
Kamnik
A medieval town at the foot of the Kamnik-Savinja Alps, and the road up to Velika Planina.
204 places · day trip
Škofja Loka
One of the best-preserved medieval town centres in Slovenia, 25 minutes from Ljubljana and almost always empty.
233 places · day trip
Alpine Slovenia
The Julian Alps, the Karavanke and the Kamnik-Savinja Alps. Glacial lakes, the Soča, Triglav National Park, and the highest passes in the country.
Bled
The glacial lake with an island church and a castle on a cliff. Slovenia’s most photographed place, and its most crowded in August.
155 places · 2–4 nights
Bohinj
Slovenia’s largest natural lake, entirely inside Triglav National Park. Quieter and wilder than Bled, 30 minutes further in.
128 places · 2–4 nights
Kranjska Gora
Slovenia’s best-known ski town in winter; in summer, the foot of the Vršič pass and the start of a flat 80 km cycle route to Italy and Austria.
140 places · 2–3 nights
Radovljica
A walled medieval square seven minutes from Bled, with Slovenia’s beekeeping museum and its best-known gingerbread workshop.
127 places · 1–2 nights
Bovec
Slovenia’s whitewater and paragliding centre, on the upper Soča under Kanin.
65 places · 2–3 nights
Kobarid
A First World War front town that became one of Slovenia’s two serious food destinations.
43 places · 1–3 nights
Tolmin
The lower Soča valley’s main town, at the confluence with the Tolminka and its gorges.
44 places · 1–2 nights
Logarska Dolina
A textbook glacial valley in the Kamnik-Savinja Alps, protected as a regional park, ending at the Rinka waterfall.
70 places · 1–2 nights
Velika Planina
A high karst pasture above Kamnik with a surviving settlement of herdsmen’s huts, reached by cable car.
54 places · day trip
Jezersko
A quiet valley head under the Kamnik-Savinja Alps on the Austrian border, with almost no through traffic.
44 places · 1–2 nights
Mediterranean & Karst Slovenia
Forty-six kilometres of Adriatic coast, Venetian old towns, and the limestone plateau behind them riddled with the caves that gave karst its name.
Piran
A Venetian town on a headland, car-free inside the walls, with the best-preserved historic core on the Slovenian coast.
73 places · 1–3 nights
Portorož
The coast’s resort and spa strip, immediately next to Piran, with the beaches and hotels Piran does not have.
74 places · 2–5 nights
Izola
A working fishing town between Koper and Piran — the coast’s best eating for the least ceremony.
83 places · 1–3 nights
Koper
Slovenia’s only commercial port and the coast’s largest town, with a Venetian Gothic square behind the container cranes.
177 places · 1–2 nights
Postojna
The town above Slovenia’s most visited cave system, halfway between Ljubljana and the coast.
116 places · day trip
Škocjan Caves
A UNESCO World Heritage cave system with the largest known underground canyon, quieter and more dramatic than Postojna.
99 places · day trip
Lipica
The stud farm founded in 1580 that gave the Lipizzaner horse its name, on the Karst plateau by the Italian border.
72 places · day trip
Vipava Valley
A warm wine valley between the Karst and the Alps, known for indigenous white varieties and the burja wind.
82 places · 1–3 nights
Goriška Brda
Terraced hills of vines, cherries and olives on the Italian border — the Slovenian half of Collio.
42 places · 1–3 nights
Nova Gorica
A planned post-war town fused to Gorizia across the Italian border — together the 2025 European Capital of Culture.
150 places · 1–2 nights
Cerknica
The town beside Lake Cerknica, Slovenia’s largest intermittent lake — which disappears most summers.
86 places · day trip
Idrija
A UNESCO-listed mercury mining town, and the home of Slovenian bobbin lace.
76 places · day trip
Thermal Pannonian Slovenia
Slovenia’s east: thermal spa towns, the oldest vine in the world still bearing fruit, and the country’s largest wine-growing districts.
Maribor
Slovenia’s second city, with the world’s oldest producing vine and a ski hill inside the city limits.
592 places · 1–3 nights
Ptuj
The oldest documented town in Slovenia, Roman Poetovio, with a castle above and the country’s oldest wine cellar below.
254 places · 1–2 nights
Celje
A Roman town under the largest castle in Slovenia, seat of the counts who put the three stars on the national coat of arms.
245 places · 1–1 nights
Podčetrtek
A thermal spa village on the Croatian border, with one of Slovenia’s largest water parks and the Olimje monastery.
96 places · 2–4 nights
Rogaška Slatina
A nineteenth-century spa town built around Donat, a mineral water with exceptionally high magnesium content.
86 places · 2–5 nights
Laško
A brewing and thermal town on the Savinja, home of Slovenia’s best-known beer.
138 places · 1–2 nights
Pohorje
A long, rounded, forested massif above Maribor — silicate rather than limestone, so it has peat bogs and lakes.
204 places · 1–3 nights
Novo mesto
The main town of Dolenjska, on a bend of the Krka, with an Iron Age past and the cviček wine region around it.
158 places · 1–2 nights
Bela krajina
Slovenia’s warm southeastern corner on the Kolpa, known for birch woods, folk tradition and the cleanest swimmable river in the country.
57 places · 2–4 nights
Kočevje
The gateway to Slovenia’s largest forest — virgin stands, brown bears, and Europe’s deepest closed karst depression.
65 places · 1–3 nights