Description & Facts: Currently we are presenting Ljubljana - the capital of Slovenia. It is also the largest city of this small European country. In 2008 it had 270,828 people spread across an area of 275 km2.

Born as a Roman military camp of the Legio XV Apollinaris in the mid-first century C., the character of the city was consolidated with the founding of the Colonia Iulia Emona years later. After successive destruction, in the sixth century settled the ancestors of the Slovenes, and in the eleventh century came under Frankish rule. Since 1278, after its conquest by Rudolf I of Habsburg, the city passed to the Habsburgs until 1797.

During the Napoleonic period, Ljubljana was the capital of the Illyrian Provinces between 1816 and 1849 and it was the Kingdom of Illyria. In 1918, after the First World War, he joined the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and after World War II became the capital of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, as part of Yugoslavia. In 1991, and after a short war, Slovenia became independent of the latter, being the capital city of the country since then.

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Its heritage and monuments, and various cultural celebrations that take place throughout the year, among which the International Summer Festival, the city becomes a recipient of national and international tourism. Among its most representative monuments are the Cathedral, the Castle, the Franciscan Church of the Annunciation and the Bridge of Dragons, and the whole of modernist buildings. The architect Joze Plecnik signed many of the most prominent buildings in the city.

Ljubljana has a developed network of roads and rail, in addition to an airport with international flights and immersed in extension work to extend its operational capacity, currently overwhelmed.

University of Ljubljana, founded in 1919, is headquartered in the city, and in 2006-07 there were over 63,000 students. Your library books amounted in 2004 1.169.090. It also has various international cultural institutes such as the Instituto Cervantes (Spain), British Council (United Kingdom) and Goethe Institute (Germany).

As the state capital, Ljubljana houses the headquarters of the government (National Assembly and National Council), ministries, institutions and partner agencies as well as the official residence of the President of Slovenia. The city is a member of UCLG, UCUE, Eurocities, URBACT, Civitas Forum, Les Rencontres, European Cities Marketing and Global Cities Dialogue. In economic terms, the city maintains a leading position nationally, home of the main stock market in the country, the Bank of Slovenia and many domestic firms.

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