Ljubljana, Slovenia

This is my first, and so far only official from Slovenia

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what I insanely love about this card is the choice of the sender...coz on this card you can actually see the monument of France Prešern...I think its not hard to guess why i so much appreciate the sender's choice here...apart from that, you can also see the Three Bridges with the Franciscan church and the Šmalc (former Hauptman) House.
I dont know if i had shared this with you before.
As some of you may know, Skopje suffered a disastrous earthquake in 1963, 26th of July..the city was immensly destroyed and many areas had to be rebuilt from the scratch, since around 80% of the city were destroyed. Many countries from all over the world (78 to be precise) gave their hand to help us, to rebuild the city, to find shelter and food for the homeless ones. All the  countries from former Yugoslavia helped as well...and the area where I live now, was helped by Slovenia....so hence the certain Slovenian distinctions.
As for France Prešern, he was one of Slovenia's greatest poets, and I hope Ill have a chance to talk of him more in depth with some other card.

the stamp is from the flowers set of 17 stamps issued in 2007, with this one showing the Saw-wort.

Ljubljana, Slovenia (02)

An old card, 1975 to be precise, sent to my grandparents from my father when he was serving the army...

Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II is paying a visit to Slovenia these days? Yup, thats right :)
And its her first visit to the country since its independence in 1991...i guess its a real honour for the Slovenians ....

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Another aerial view for today, this time of Slovenia's capital, Ljubljana.

Well, i can 'brag' that i have at least one card from each capital of the former Yugoslav republics, but unfortunately, i cant say the same about visiting those places, which is a pity.
I know, several years ago, when i went on my European trip, we had to pass through Slovenia...im still haunted by the image of beautiful small colourful houses in lovely green surroundings...I might have been to Slovenia when i was little (very little) but i cant recall anything of that, so if you cant remember, it doesnt count :)
But i would love to go there and visit it....i just cant believe i need a visa for there as well :/

Probably you dont know this, but its an interesting fact. When the catastrophic earthquake happened in Skopje, in 1963, the town was simply destroyed and hundreds of people were left homeless and had to flea somewhere else, before the city was rebuilt. As it usually happens, aid arrived from all over the globe and certain countries helped in rebuilding certain areas and due to that, they named the streets in that area regarding something significant for that country. Well, the area where i live was helped by Slovenia (even though it wasnt an independent country back then, still it was a republic of its own) so the streets here are related to Slovenia in one way or another...mine as well :)
Well, now that i thought of it...there is an area here, where the streets are named by some of the European capitals....im not sure who helped there....i think i should ask around...never thought of it before but now i got curious.

Anyway, sorry i didnt talk of the card...but sometimes i just go astray :)
There are some cards from Lubljana in the older posts (though those ones havent been updated yet, hopefully soon i will) so you can take a read a bit about Ljubljana there...soon.

Btw, im interested how foreigners would pronounce the name of Ljubljana...it can get tricky, i know (even trickier if you have to read it in the cyrillic alphabet: Љубљана :)))))

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Ljubljana, Slovenia