On May 29, 1944, an American B17 Flying Fortress bomber plane called Liberty Bell crashed atop an otherworldly mountain in Slovenia. The World War II bomber went down on Velika Planina, an idyllic alpine plateau where centuries of herders have grazed their sheep and cattle.
Located high in the Kamnik-Savinja Alps, Velika Planina (which means “Big Pasture Plateau”) is no ordinary mountaintop. Tourists compare it to the mythical Narnia (indeed, parts of the Narnia films were made in Slovenia) or J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, and it truly is a fantasy land—a flat, rolling meadow dotted with low-slung wooden houses and backdropped by the snowcapped Alps.
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| Name | Since | Distance | |||
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| Urbirun Ljubljana – Highlights en fr | 30.4km | site_izi | |||
| Ljubljana City Tour en | 30.5km | site_izi | |||
| Cast-Iron Dogs of Tivoli Castle | 2020 | 30.4km | site_ao | ||
| Slovenian Railway Museum | 2020 | 29.2km | site_ao | ||
| Lečtarski Museum | 2019 | 38km | site_ao | ||
| Tuhinj Valley | 2019 | 8.7km | site_ao | ||
| Samostan Mekinje Monastery | 2019 | 8.3km | site_ao | ||
| Domžale Straw Hat Museum | 2019 | 19km | site_ao | ||
| Alpine Ski Museum | 2019 | 37.1km | site_ao | ||
| ‘Faces’ of Locksmith Street | 2019 | 30.5km | site_ao | ||
| Kamnik | 2018 | 9.8km | site_ao | ||
| The Dream House of Ljubljana’s Most Influential Architect | 2017 | 31.3km | site_ao | ||
| Stara Elektrarna (The Old Power Station) | 2017 | 29.7km | site_ao | ||
| This Cyanometer Measures the Blueness of the Sky | 2017 | 30.1km | site_ao | ||
| Creina Hotel | 24.8km | site_brutalism | |||
| Ferantov Vrt Residential and Commercial Complex | 1964 | 30.8km | site_brutalism |
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