Galeria Sloveniana

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Jože Jaksetič

Jože Jakšetič was born in Primorska, Slovenia and arrived in Australia in the sixties. He settled in Albury, and married. He always wanted to paint and did a course in painting at the Albury university. His more...

Stanislaus Rapotec, Expressionist Painter

Stanislaus Rapotec’s works are arresting, spontaneous and powerful. In his 2002 discussion of the large-scale painting Experience in the far West 1961. Daniel Thomas described Rapotec’s work as ‘explosiv more...

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...

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

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Zagorje na Pivki

Zagorje na Pivki is a village with history. In the centre stands the church of St.Helena, that used to have the sweetest sounding bells. It lies below the Šilentabor hill where a great fortress once stood. Yo more...

Šilentabor

Šilentabor used to be a mighty fortress, guarding the gateway to central Europe and Slovenian territories. It stood on the heights, the last on the ridge in the chain of peaks, where they burnt the signal fire more...

Easter in Slovenia - Kamna gorica

Traditional Easter celebrations are still alive in contemporary Slovenia, particularly in the villages, where interest in these traditions, which combine the pre-Christian and Christian elements, is on the incr more...

Planica, Ski Flying World Championships 2012

2012 competition was concluded in Planica, Slovenija on 24 - 25 February. Particularly exciting for the Slovenian home crowd was the great performance by the local ski champion, Robert Kranjec, who received th more...

Community Photolog

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Seminar 2011-teachers discover Koper

Organizers of teachers seminars place them always in an area, that would enable the participants to gain more insight into the country and its people. In 2011 the area selected was Koper, a port on the edge of more...

Seminar 2011- teachers discover Slovenia

An integral part of the seminar for teachers of Slovenian Abroad has been planned by the organizer Dragica Motik to show the participants, most of them born outside Slovenia, the land and its people. In 2011, t more...

Art Centre for Children and Youth in Ljubljana

The Art Centre is in Komenskega 9, a lovely old buidling that used to house children's literature. Now it is a free centre for children's art, a special project by ex-mayor Vida Potočnik. Animators are respons more...

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...

Australiana Photolog

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Aboriginal Garden

Australian Aboriginal Garden is a project of Monash University,in Melbourne, to be launched in late 2010. It represents a significant part of Monash University parkland development and upgrade. 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...

Aboriginal rock art

Aboriginal rock paintings in Australia are an amazing and aweinspiring phenomenon. They are to be found in all the rocky places of Australia where the tribes sheltered and have remained, constantly retouched, r more...

Melbourne Botanic Garden

Royal Botanic Gardens are regarded among the finest in the world and are one of the best places in Melbourne to visit. The extensive gardens are within the walking distance of the Yarra River and the city centr more...

Egypt Travelog

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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...

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 Temple of Abydos

The construction of the Temple at Abydos was begun by Seti I and completed by his son Rameses II with the addition of a pylon and two courtyards now ruined. Today it is distinguished for the beauty of wall pain more...

The Temple of Isis at Philae

The Philae complex is a group of temples, the largest of which is dedicated to Isis, and characterised by apparent disorder in the elements of which it is composed. The temple was moved stone by stone to its pr more...

Slovenian Travelog

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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...

Lipizzaner of Lipica

Lipizzaners are the world famous horse breed of the Lipica Stud Farm. Named after the Slovenian village Lipica, their history began 400 years ago, when stallions of the Andalusian, Barb and Berber breeds from t more...

Kostel: Mirtoviški potok

The Mirtoviški potok is one of the many streams winding their ways amnog the hills and valleys towards the mighty river Kolpa which now marks the divide between the Slovenian and Croatian territory- One can wa more...

Kostel, a special corner of Slovenia

Kostel is the smallest municipality of the Republic of Slovenia, tucked inside the U turn of the river Kolpa in the south-west of the country, on the border with Croatia.Its size is 57 sq km, it has 54 villages more...

Australian Travelog

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Nourlangie Rock

Nourlangie Rock, the Aboriginal name is Nawurlandja, and is the actual name of smaller rock outcrop at the Anbangbang billabong, is a spectacular region in Kakadu National Park in Northern Territory, Australia. 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...

Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory

Kakadu National Park, covering nearly 20,000 sq.km is the largest national park in Australia and one of the very few places listed a world heritage area for both its cultural and natural value. Generations of more...

Nitmiluk National Park, Katherine River

Nitmiluk National Park, previousy known as Katherine Gorge National Park, the park is home to the spectacular series of 13 sandstone gorges, carved over a billion years by the waters of Katherine River. It is l more...

Webzine features

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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...

Kozolec in the landscape

Prof Borut Juvanec, Department of Vernacular Architecture at Ljubljana University defines this Slovenian construction: The kozolec (hayrack) is a free standing, permanent, mainly wooden, vertical, open but roof more...

Primož Trubar Museum

Primož Trubar(1508-1586) was born in Rašca in Dolenjska region(Lower Carniola) of Slovenia. He established the protestant church in Slovenia and produced 20 books in Slovenian language, the first ever written more...

Contemporary Slovenian Architecture

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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...

Jože Peterkoč

In the first decade after his graduation from Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana in 1990, architect Jože Peterkoč (1962) was still highly influenced by then prevailing architectural thought in Slovene leadi 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...

Dekleva - Gregorič Arhitekti

What might be characteristic for the work of Aljoša Dekleva (1972) and Tina Gregorič (1974) aka Dekleva Gregorič architects is their eagerness to probe the boundaries of each of their project, to explore the more...