It is truly curious that the national hero of a country is a poet who, instead of having wielded a metal weapon, has taken a pen to express absolutely revolutionary ideas through his poetry. That is France Prešeren, a Slovenian hero who wrote the poem entitled Brindis that would later be adopted (two of his stanzas) as the National Anthem of Slovenia, which could be described as a love song for free thought and the fatherland, but, above all things, a call for the unity of all peoples for the sake of world peace.

Thank you for the lovely video❤️ I’ll never forget my experience in this city. We were staying at the Grand Hotel Union which was smack in the middle of all this. I’ll never forget the memory of walking out of the hotel lobby to take a stroll around the place and finding myself transported into this fairytale. Imagine my surprise when as I was walking with my head down low I look up and found myself in the middle of all this; the Franciscan church behind be, the Preseren statue to my left, a kind-looking gentleman walking his dogs to my right, and in front of me was a man playing the accordion. I took a few more steps forward and behind him was the view of a castle on top of a hill in the distance. I miss this place so much.

I live here, nice you visited. Always welcome back. Interesting to see the city through the travelers eyes.

I lived and worked in Slovenia for two years in the late 90s. My wife and I were the first American couple to be married in Slovenia at Bled Grad. It's like being in another world; culture shock coming and returning to the U.S. Sometimes I really miss it. It's my second home.

thank you for sharing. Slovenia looks lovely!

Tom, Very entertaining and informative, really enjoy seeing Slovenia, a wonderful country to visit.

Another masterpiece video. Enjoyed every moment. Was overwhelmed spiritually inside the Cathedral. Ljubljana is a place I find so intriguing and beautiful. Thank you Tom for all of these wonderful videos of places of breathtakingly beautiful people, buildings, and awesome cuisine

Such a beautiful place. Always love your videos.

Ljubljana is such a beautiful city. I enjoy the center part of the city next to river

Dear Tom! Thank you for very beautiful video about capital of Slovenia.

SOOOO BEAUTIFUL CITY.THANK YOU FOR THE NICE VIDEO

Thank you Tom, this was amazing!

That big powerfull building you pointed out its actually the University of Ljubljana.

Ljubljana Slovenija 🇸🇮✌️

Thank you for your video tour. We watched it pleasantly.

Serious dad energy. 😄 Great video. Thank you!

Beautiful cathedral!

Very good capital tour ! All the Best ! Thanks

France Prešeren was the greatest Slovenian poet (1800 - 1849) who also wrote the Slovenian anthem. It's great to see foreigners appreciate our capital city so much. Nevertheless it is beautiful.

Looks wonderful Definitely on my bucket list I’d love to do a road trip throughout the Balkans if I could pull it off sometime

Very good tour of my neighbour city, I am from Maribor, Slovenia 🇸🇮❤️

Thank you Tom,such a lovely video of a gorgeous city! I am off in July..so looking forward to going! Best Regards Jana.

Beauuutifuuuul!

It was amazing. Thank you.

Gorgeous. I'm adding to my bucket list.

I was there late July. The centre is full of tourists, looks like you were lucky and early july is mich quieter

Beautiful city been there and really enjoyed thanks to Freja for that amazing time 🤗

Loo-blah-naah is the proper local pronounciation. And much easier for english speaking.

Thank you so much for this video. I was so surprised cos my (two years now) 'dead' friend was on your tape still alive. He was working in front of red church.. Very good person who I liked a lot. So, thanks for this forever memories. Greetings from Ljubljana. 👍😇🙏🤗🐞

I live here :) and I love it how you see it! Welcome anytime!

wow, you came on a busy day. when I go to Ljubljana its a lot more laid back. (im from Slovenia)

I will always love sLOVEnia, 😍

I was in Croatia last month, and took a couple days side trip to a Ljubljana. Definitely a very relaxing and pleasant little city in Europe. Greetings from Texas!

Nice video We are headed there in Oct.

At 20:07 they are singing in Slovenian language.

My trip to Ljubljana was very memorable. Had great experiences with the locals as they were very friendly and accomodating. Rich in history, clean, and amazing natural sights. We only stayed there for three days unfortunately. I really wished we stayed in Slovenia a bit longer.

LJUBLJANA IS WONDERFUL

Life can be strange. I have stumbled upon your videos only by chance. There was a link to your Darwin Street video in a discussion that I had little interest in. I watched your video and saw that you have many many videos of traveling. I am pleased to have found someone who has a deep passion for the world. I will subscribe and follow along in your journeys.

Very interesting video,

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After you showing us all the good foods I think I will gain some extra weight Tom.. The last bit with sousage , bread roll ,mustard and soup of the day made run straight to the fridge and get that cabana with American Mustard :)

Looks very nice, now I want to go to Slovenia! I live next door in Hungary, but I've never been there.

Looks like mini Zurich . Definitely on my list to visit

Those sculptures of angels in the cathedral are the work of Francesco Robba of the Robba fountain.

In Cleveland live many people with Slovenian routs.

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It's a beautiful and very quiet city (maybe too much for my taste) to walk, but very small: in less than a day you can visit almost everything there's to see in it; (there aren't many tourist attractions)

May I know the camera you used in this video? :) This vlog is so raw and amazing! Looking forward to visiting Slovenia after the pandemic.

SLOVENIJA ❤️

France Prešeren is the man

i really happy to watch this but kinda sad since im not able to go there my self and recover my family history wthin slovenia

Yeah Cleveland!

Building at 15:00 is University of Ljubljana

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how is the image so stable while walking?

good pick with the food. kranjska sausage. how are the prices here compared to american? I was thinking of travelling through USA...

SLOVENIA - EINE EINHEIT , . EIN LAND , wo Herzen der Menschen zusammen schlagen und sich wunderbar verstehen. EINE GROßE FAMILIE DIE ZUSAMMEN HÄLT. LJUBLJANA eine wunderschöne Stadt mit großartigen Mitbewohner und einer Kultur die neue Brücken baut und aber auch das alte mit modernen verknüpft. LJUBLJANA IST EINE REISE WERT.

Rarkable video as good as a professional videography

The girl at 3:50 is actually mimicking the very moving and terrible statue at the front of the Lubjel Tunnel which crosses into Austria. During WW2, the Nazis had a concentration camp there and built the tunnel using slave labor. There is a book about in (in Slovene). There is a memorial at the site with a statue of an eviscerated man/skeleton reaching up to the sky in agony, pleading.

I think that it would be more precise to say that Slovenia is a part of Central Europe, not Eastern. Nice walkthrough though.

view on SEPTEMBER 3 , 2021 at 9 :05 A.M. from Philippines GOOD it is a pet-FRIENDly city where dogs can FREEly roam around with there Papa .

very nice, but too humid!

I heard that there are quite a few slovenes in cleveland, even though a lot of them are assimilated by now and speak english and i think read somewhere that there are up to 500 thousand people of full or partial slovene descent living in the U.S. which is a large number considering that the whole slovenia has a population of only 2 mil. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene_Americans Just found this on wikipedia

The building you referred to as government building is the University of Ljubljana

decent video. :D

Seeing people eating out doors must mean they don't have mosquitoes. That in itself recommends the city. I live in Montana USA and after 4 pm the mosquitoes come out the people have to go indoors.

SLOVENIA was never ever behind the iron curtain we were never a part of USSR iron curtain we where allowed to travel and we had free market sLOVEnia then part of Yugoslavia was independent from West and USSR Tito was loved by Yugoslavian peopele and Tito was the one who said no to Stalin so please stop stop stop telling everyone that we where part of eastern block !!!!!

5:05 that accordion player did that to me too. He turn his back on me while I was filming that city square. I thought to my self: “What a rude person!” If you don’t like to be filmed, don’t play on the streets. Go play at a concert hall so nobody records you.” And he still has his acordion case for tips. I did not tip by the way. You got to have charisma with your audience if you want to make money. I think he is in the wrong profession. (This happened in August of 2021 btw)

4:25 - France Preseren (Pre'-shur - in) is the national hero of Slovenia. He was an early 19th-century lawyer and poet who wanted independence from the Hapsburg rule and admired Thomas Jefferson who he allegedly met in Paris. He was imprisoned and prevented from practicing law for years and saw his writings censored. He died poor and neglected.

Klagenfurth = Austria

Vi uživate a jas ga ne razumem kaj govori o Ljubljani

THE FUJUR COMING GO GOING GIVE GIVING DOLLARS BILLIONS

Croatians speak great English. Hungary , Italy , France, Poland don't but the Croats are great

Refreshing lack of cyclists.....

I think the best way for you to pronounce "Ljubljana" correctly is to ignore the "J"s. Just say "Looblanah." Even most Slovenians pronounce it like that.

TOM HALL - You have mentioned in this Ljubljana video re - Malaysia people dont speak English??? This is not true; Malaysia is a multiracial country,in the Malaysia school where 3 languages are taught-Malay,English n Mandarin. At most malaysia cities/towns most Malaysians do speak understand English to answer your questions. Unless you go to the outskirt rural fields where most local folks speak malay language. **Please correct your False Statements on Malaysia which is NOT TRUE to the World☺**

Še en verski blaznež !

-Nopn sa veramente niente:

The pronounciation of Ljubljana is almost right. Only a small mistake: it is not , but . These Americans are really super-provincial!

Ulice so prazne.janševec je zaprl narod.

Slovenia did experience about 3 brain-drain waves in the past: 1) Between the 2nd world war when intellectuals and anyone prosperous and productive was killed by the communists 2) After the 2nd world war most intellectuals and entrepreneurs that were still left escaped the communist regime 3) After independence and joining the EU a lot of ambitions people migrated to the European west. I went east to Australia. New world suits me better.