Žale Ljubljana

Place of silence

Tjasa from Ljubljana

""Žale" Ljubjlana is one more cemetery I love. I promise, I'm not 'black!' This one's truly an outdoor gallery and the Garden of all Saints is spectacular!"

A few years ago I moved into the vicinity of Žale - this is what we call the main cemetery of Ljubljana - and started to enjoy long and quiet walks through, yes, you've guessed it, the cemetery. Next to the cemetery is a nice Šmartinski park, but the walks through Žale offered a lot of shade and many interesting pieces of art. I have realized that Žale truly is an outdoor gallery full of interesting stories.

The most spectacular is the first part, called The Garden of all Saints, designed by our most famous architect Plečnik. It has a monumental entry, an oratory and 14 little mortuaries and chapels, each of which presents typical architecture from one past time and/or location. And that is only the beginning.

You can reach it by walking/cycling 3 km from the center, by city bus or on your walk on The Path of Remembrance and Comradeship.

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Ljubljana Spotter Tjasa

About me My biggest passion is learning about the world, then capturing its moments with my photo camera and teaching others about that. I do this mostly as a writer of my blog and a contributor for a few other (online and offline) publications and as a tourist guide. My favourite tours in Ljubljana are the food tour, the wine tour and the Deadly tour, which at the end is not deadly at all, it is just a tour at Ljubljana cemetery. At the moment I am designing a tour called Ilovit, which I think will also be one of my favourite tours, because it takes visitors out of the medieval centre t...

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