Galeria Sloveniana
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...
Anica Kodila, Home Decorator's Art
Anica Kodila is a native of Doljni Zomun near Ilirska Bistrica. She has lived in Australia for nearly fifty years and resides in Melbourne. She acquired some knowledge and skill at home. She inherited her love more...
France Gorše, Slovenian sculptor
France Gorše was born in Dolenjska/Lower Carniola in the village Sodražica, in 1897. He studied in Ljubljana, fought on the Italian Front in World War I, and after the war went to Zagreb where where he studie more...
John Kodrič, Slovenian artist in Australia
John Kodrič has pursued the love for painting for over twenty-five years in Australia. He was born in Brje, Dobravlje, Slovenia in 1941 and settled in Australia permanently in 1960. John studied art while work more...
Sloveniana Photolog
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...
Gregorjevo-Floating the little boats, 2011
On Gregorjevo-St Gregory Day- a traditional celebration takes place every year, originating in Kamna gorica. On 12 March, the Eve of the day, children bring little cardboard houses on floats, with candles, and more...
Pustovanje in Ljubljana 2011
Pustovanje /is the great winter festival held on Shrove Tuesday, now on Saturday or Sunday weekend before. It is a celebration of the end of winter, and a living folk festival with ancient figures presenting th 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...
Community Photolog
Children of Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Paraguay
Tudi mladi so lahko praznovali 20. rojstni dan svoje domovine. Veleposlaništvo Republike Slovenije v Buenos Airesu je za malo mlajše - pod pokroviteljstvom soproge veleposlanika, mag. Darje Zorko Mencin - pri 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...
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...
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...
Australiana Photolog
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
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
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
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
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...
Jože Plečnik - Sluice Gates
The architect urbanist Joze Plecnik envisaged the sluicegates as a monumental farewell of the river Ljubljanica on its exit from the Ljubljana city centre. more...
Contemporary Slovenian Architecture
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...
A.biro
The architecture of Abiro established by architects Miloš Florjaničič (1955) and Matej Blenkuš (1971) significantly marked the space of Slovenian contemporary architecture in the past ten years. Their archi more...
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