The Preseren house
A memorial museum has been set up in the house where the most prominent Slovene poet, Dr. France Prešeren resided from autumn 1846 until February 8, 1849.A contemporarily conceived permanent exhibition...
View ArticlePrešeren's Theatre and Plečnik's Arcades
The building was built in 1909 as the National Home for the needs of the society of education and entertainment. It was reconstructed in 1952 according to the plans of the architect Jože Plečnik. The...
View ArticlePuharjeva House
Janez Puhar (1814?1864), the inventor of photography on glass, was born in this renovated 18th-century townhouse. The memorial plaque on the façade was unveiled by the Puhar Fotokino Club of Kranj in...
View ArticleCity Defense Tower on Pungert
Somehow at the edge of the main traffic flow of the city at the tip of the promontory (the square Trubarjev trg) lays the tract of Pungert. The name itself tells us originating (from the German word...
View ArticleRevolution Square (Trg Revolucije)
In 1886, the City of Kranj bought the farm of the Khislstein Manor in the suburb of Kokrica and arranged here a tree-lined promenade. In 1922, a National Center (Narodni dom) designed by architect Ivan...
View ArticleLower City Gate
The double lower city gate in the medieval defense wall is located on Mohorjev klanec, the local name for Vodopivčeva ulica Street, below the Rosary Church. The two towers of the lower city gate can be...
View ArticleSimon Jenko Memorial Room
This two-story Baroque house rebuilt in the 19th century was the last home of the Slovene poet Simon Jenko (1835?1869). He is buried in the old Kranj cemetery in the Prešeren Grove (Prešernov gaj). In...
View ArticleSpital's Tower
The town was encircled by city walls running from Pungert along its west side , turning on the so-called "Krivica" eastwards to the brinks of Kokra Canyon. There were at least seven towers of defence...
View ArticleThe water tower
The water tower was built by the Kranj’s Provincial Committee from 1908 to 1911 according to the design of the hydrologist and architect Jan Vladimir Hráský. It is a tower with an octagon...
View ArticleThe Central Library - The »Diocese«
In the year 1874 the bishop of Ljubljana Jernej Vidmar, built a new building called the diocese in the site of the chapel from the 18th century which belonged to the Kostnk Chapel. The building reveals...
View ArticleThe House of Birth of Dr. Janez Bleiweis
The one storey baroque building was reconstructed in the second half of the 19th century. Simple in form, this town house was the place of birth of Dr. Janez Bleiweis (1808 - 1881), the slovene...
View ArticleThe House with a Prominence
This house is a typical example of a Kranj town house of the transition period from the 15th century to the 16th century characterised by typical late Gothic and renaissance elements. Typical are also...
View ArticleThe Ossuary
After intermittent excavations on the extensive Old Slavic burial ground beside the Kranj parish church between 1953 and 1973, an archaeological monument was set up to the north of the church. One can...
View ArticleThe Hayne's House
The three storeyed house was bulit in 16th century, and was raised for a storey later in the age of baroque and art in the 19th century. Its renaissance arcade passages were walled up in the beginning...
View ArticlePavslars House
This old time house in the central position of the main square of Kranj counts among the most important monuments of late medieval town arcitecture in Slovenia. It developed in to extremely articulated...
View ArticleThe tunnels of Kranj
Underneath the town of Kranj there are numerous artificial underground facilities that have long ago lost their original purpose and slipped into oblivion, but invite us as works of human hands in a...
View ArticlePizzeria Romano
Opening time: Mon.-Thu. 7.30-23.00, Fri.-Sat. 7.30-24.00, Sun. 16.00-23.00
View ArticleOrinoco - exhibition on the rainforest Indians of the Orinoco region of...
This extensive exhibition of over 800 artefacts shows the ever more endangered way of life of the Hiwi, Hoti, Panare and other Indian peoples who have lived in the rainforest of the Orinoco River...
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