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What is the oldest town in Slovenia? It’s a picturesque village with a name that we are really struggling to pronounce. Can you guess which one it is? We had actually never heard of it ourselves, but a bit of research on Google Maps made us want to check out the place.
As you can expect from the oldest town of a country in Europe, it has cobblestone streets, a castle on a hill, and many narrow, winding streets that you can wander through for hours. Our first impression of the town is great. There is a very well-maintained parking lot – with free toilets and the possibility to rent bicycles. Normally you only pay about 50 cents per hour, but we even get to park for free. We find out later why we didn’t have to pay a cent: An Austrian tourist explains to us that it’s a public holiday in Slovenia. So, will we find anything to do on a public holiday in the oldest town of Slovenia?
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Ptuj (Roman Poetovio) got it's formal city rights 54 years after Ljubljana (Roman Emona), Trst/Trieste (Roman Tergeste) is sadly in Italy, Aegida (Srmin in Koper/Capodistria) would probably counted as the oldest formal city as it was originaly a greek colony and then there are other important pre-Roman settlements…
Edit: Koper/Capodistria (Roman Capris/Greek Aegida(?) ) was named as Colonia when Cezar used it to settle his veterans, but only had status of a vicus (something like a market town/village).