slovenia martin
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The Slovenian flag gets its colours from the Yugoslavflag before it broke up. On
theemblem you see Slovenia’shighest mountain Triglav.
The3 stars are the 3 dukes of
Celjeand the wavy lines representthe longest river- Sava and
thesea.
Since Slovenia is in the Europian Union it’s 2
million Inhabitants and 20,273
km²use the euro currency. It
liessouth of Austria, east of
Italyand west of Hungary.
Ljubljana is the capital city of Slovenia and is also a very
beautiful city. Is has roughly 280 220 inhabitants. The river
Ljubljanica flows through it and there are several bridges
across it including the famous Tromostovje, a triple bridge
and the Dragon bridge.
Bled lies in valley next to the second biggest lake in Slovenia.
It is a very popular turist spot because it offers a lot of Activities like swimming, kayaking, canoeing, skydiving, parachuting andmore, and it even has an island in the
middle of the lake. You can also go mountainering or enjoy the
local delicacy; kremšnita. Another very nice spot to visit is
Vintgar;it’s a walk down a cannyon with the river Sava Bohinjka.
If there is a feature that describes Bohinj it’s; Slovenia’s biggest
lake. And the most fascinating thing about the lake is that it
was made by a glacier. Just like in Bled, Bohinj offers a wide
range of activites. The most comon is kayaking and canoeing.
It is also a nice starting point for mountainerig.
Piran or Pirano as it is referd to in Italian is the most western
town in Slovenia that lies next to the 43 157 metres of Slovene
coast. The town lies on a penincula between the Piran and
Strunjan gulf. The mos western point on the penincula is cape
Madona. Piran’s most famous spot is Tartini’s square named
after a famous composer Giuseppe Tartini who was born there
in the year 1692.
The most known fact about Ptuj is that it is Slovenias oldest
town. It was built by the Romans when they reached the river
Danube. First it served as military base, but it then grew into a
small town and then it just cept growing. Today its most
famous atraction is kurentovanje on shrowe Tuesday.
Idrija used to be a minig town. In the mine where the men
worked they where diging for mercury. But the amount they
dug up was stagering; before the mine was shut down they
suplied 64% of the worlds mercury suplies. But now the mine
is a museum and is probably the only museum intoxicated
with radon. It also has a nice aquarium of indigiouse and
exotic fish.
On this slide I will describe to you an unbelivable Phenomenon that happens here at Cerkniško jezro,
actualy the lake is the phenomenon. It’s never there for an
entire year. In the dry season it goes down holes called
požiralniki, and in the wet season it comes back up up holes called
bruhalniki and via the rain. And if you ask the locals if they can
describe the lake in one sentence they will say: jzeru je, jzera
nej.
Koper or Caprodistria in Italian, is Slovenias only town to have
cargo port and it’s big. It is Slovenias sixth biggest town and
there are two official languages amomg the 23 726 inhabitants,
Sloven and Italian. The cargo port sometimes gives tours to
students on there way to Croatia for there 5 day field trip.
Jesenice is also an industrial town, but it has stealworks
Instead of shipping, but then again how can you have
shipping in a valley. The steal factory used to be a lot bigger
than it is now. Roughly half of the factory was torn down so
that more people could live there. Nowdays Jesenice has one
of the bigger hospitals in Slovenia.
Slovenia offers a variety of mountaineering choices. There are
4 mountain groupes: the Alpes, the Karavanken mountains,
Dinarsko gorstvo and the Kamniško-Savinjske alpe. The
highest mountain is Triglav 2864 metres. On top of it sits a
tower called Aljažev stolp.
- Google- pictures
- Wikipedia
- My mind
Made by: Martin Mayland of
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