In Ljubljana the old meets the new and it seems that history has spent all of the settlement’s five thousand years preparing it to become the nation’s capital. It has managed to retain traces from all periods of its rich history. From the legacy of Roman Emona; through to the Renaissance, Baroque and Art Nouveau periods characterised in the house fronts and ornate doorways of the city centre, the romantic bridges adorning the Ljubljanica river, the lopsided rooftops and a park reaching deep into the city centre. Here eastern and western cultures met; and the Italian concept of art combined with the sculptural aesthetics of Central European cathedrals.
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