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As you may have already noticed, the old town boasts a number of famous churches dating far back to the Baroque period under the influence of Venetian architecture. Aside from during mass, most of the main churches are open to the public from 15:00-18:00.


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Cathedral

Cathedral
With its classic twin towers and trademark single, weather-worn green dome, the city’s cathedral, more properly known as St Nicholas’ Church, encapsulates everything that is Ljubljana. Read_on (No Comments)

Evangelical Church

Completed in 1852, this fairly unremarkable church represents much that is classic German (or, to be exact, Austrian) austerity. Read_on (No Comments)

Franciscan Church

Built in an instantly recognisable, mildly swirly Baroque fashion, Ljubljana’s mid-16th-century Franciscan Church dominates Prešernov Trg like a big pink birthday cake. Read_on (No Comments)

Holy Trinity Church

Constructed to a design by Carlo Marinuzzi between 1718 and 1726 from a commission by local merchant Jakob Schell von Schellenburg, Read_on (No Comments)

Orthodox Church

Built alongside the southwestern perimeter of Tivoli Park in 1936 to serve the city’s Serbian community, this wholly unremarkable church complete with all the usual ostentatious details, is worth visiting during services, daily at 10:00. Read_on (No Comments)

St Joseph

Following the earthquake of 1895, the religious folk of Ljubljana vowed to get together every Easter to pray that such a terrible thing would never happen again. Read_on (No Comments)

St Peter

The heritage of the Roman Catholic St Peter's Church goes back long before this building was completed in 1733, with a number of churches standing on this spot for some 500 years before Giovanni Fusconi's superb Baroque designs were realised. Read_on (No Comments)

Synagogue

Inside the headquarters of the Jewish Community of Slovenia, the small synagogue was the last synagogue to open in a European capital city and dates from 2003. Read_on (No Comments)