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About 24 miles away
A Karst town above Postojna Cave and its cave train, with the Škocjan Caves and Predjama Castle nearby.
3 Sights
Metelkova
Former army barracks taken over by artists in 1993, covered in murals and mosaics, with clubs at night.
- Open
- Always
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 1 hour
- Address
- Metelkova ulica, 1000 LjubljanaDirections
- Getting There
- A 10-minute walk east of the train station.
Why Go
When the Yugoslav army left in 1991, activists and artists occupied the barracks and made them an autonomous cultural center. By day it's a gallery of sculpture and graffiti; by night its bars and clubs fill up.
Next door, the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova and the Slovene Ethnographic Museum share the old army buildings.
Nearby in Ljubljana
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