Old Town

It's impossible to capture the old town with a single image but this is a largely random selection and I know I've missed some better ones but couldn't find them. The main part of the old town winds around Ljubljana castle with a series of bridges that then extend outward as spokes. The area, as you would expect is awash with tourists and cafés. Having seen so many old towns you'd think we'd seen them all but each one has its own take and unique character. You can see here bits of other old towns but we've never seen one quite laid out like this, circling a castle. Like the Baltic states, Slovenia is a tiny country with only 2 million people and Ljubljana only 280,000. Our last stop in Ljubljana castle was a short film showing the history of the country. It's always fascinating how different a small country sees itself especially given that a small country will have spent most of its history under the thumb of the foreigner. Slovenia, and Ljubljana, is no different. We came back down the funicular and walked the streets of the old town.