Our mission is to inspire your visit to Slovenia by sharing the excellent and unique experiences Slovenian tourism has to offer at www.slovenia.info.
Discover inspiring stories and plan for a time when we are able to travel safely again.
Let’s be responsible today for a better tomorrow.
“History is life's teacher – ours too.”
In the heart of the Green Karst, not far from Pivka, lies the largest museum complex in Slovenia and one of the largest parks of this kind in this part of Europe. The Park of Military History in Pivka and its rich museum collection captivates lovers of recent history and is a treasury of knowledge for explorers of all ages with extraordinary exhibits and interactive tours.
The rapidly developing museum and tourist centre is located in the complex of old barracks in Pivka where you can feel the mark of history even today. It contains important collections and exhibitions which depict the history of Slovenia as a country, its independence war, and many people find the exhibits in the Park of Military History and the vast tank and aviation collections most attractive. The recognisable sign of the park is definitely the submarine which fascinates even the youngest visitors.
With numerous supporting activities, interesting experiences, products and services, you can easily spend the whole day at the park, and learn about history in a fun and interactive way.
Would you like to become a submarine captain for a day or test your skills as a war plane pilot? Explore unusual experiences provided by one of the mightiest Slovenian museums to visitors of all ages.
See the inside of the submarine
An almost 20-metre long submarine, the P-913 Zeta is one of the greatest attractions of the park. Check out what’s inside with a guide and listen to interesting stories. Be awed by its technical perfection.
An almost 20-metre long submarine, the P-913 Zeta is one of the greatest attractions of the park. Check out what’s inside with a guide and listen to interesting stories. Be awed by its technical perfection.
Not only see but also feel and experience. You will learn about the mission of the museum if you decide to test a flight simulator with the MiG-21. Experience flying at supersonic speed. Do you dare?
Treat yourself to lunch made according to old military cuisine recipes
Treat yourself to lunch made according to old military cuisine recipes
After seeing interesting museum collections, boost your energy levels with lunch at the museum canteen where local specialities and dishes with a touch of old military cuisine are cooked or visit the military wine cellar.
We believe that you will be captivated by the museum and take with you countless exciting memories. You can also buy a souvenir or two at the museum shop.
To everyone who wants to taste history in a genuine way, we recommend visiting the Festival of Military History, which is traditionally held on the third weekend in September. You can see a display of a military conflict, life in military camps and similar.
The Karst surprises with Postojna Cave, which is the most visited cave in Europe, Škocjan Caves with an extraordinary underground gorge and other world-famous special features. Lipica has been the original stud farm of white Lipizzaner horses since 1580. Štanjel is the architectural gem of the Karst. Indulge in cuisine offered by homesteads in Brkini and the Karst. Explore the Karst.
After enjoying adventures at the Park of Military History, go on a trip to other nearby places. They hide numerous natural and cultural sights, which you may discover wearing your hiking shoes or by bike.
Explore the intermittent Pivka Lakes and visit the eco-museum
Seventeen lakes of different sizes delight lovers of natural features with their picturesque setting. The intermittent Pivka Lakes are home to numerous plant and animal species. Take a walk along the themed trails and download a special app to learn more about these mysterious lakes. You can also get to know the special features of the lakes in the interactive Eco-Museum of the intermittent Pivka Lakes throughout the seasons.
Explore the intermittent Pivka Lakes and visit the eco-museum
Explore the intermittent Pivka Lakes and visit the eco-museum
Seventeen lakes of different sizes delight lovers of natural features with their picturesque setting. The intermittent Pivka Lakes are home to numerous plant and animal species. Take a walk along the themed trails and download a special app to learn more about these mysterious lakes. You can also get to know the special features of the lakes in the interactive Eco-Museum of the intermittent Pivka Lakes throughout the seasons.
There is an abundance of walking and hiking trails in this diverse landscape at the crossroads of the Karst and green Notranjska. You can ascend the nearby hills of Sveta Trojica, Vremšica, Kršičevec and Primož.
The Pivka Basin is the ideal destination for cyclists of all types and ages. Families can go cycling on the plains and surrounding areas of the Pivka Lakes, while adrenaline lovers may tackle more demanding ascents and descents.
One of the most known heroes of Slovenian tales – Martin Krpan is deemed to have walked around these places. The mighty man transported salt on his mare; you can follow in his footsteps and embark on a 91-kilometre hiking trip.
What does water mint smell like? What does birdsong at Cerknica Lake sound like? How does it feel to stroke the soft fur of an otter? You can experience all this and much more at the Cerknica Lake Visitor Centre. You can learn more about the mysterious lake, which is interchangeably filled with water and then covered with meadows, and you can find out more about its origin in the Cerknica Lake Museum where, among other things, you can see a live model of the lake, observe the changes to its surrounding natural environment through the seasons, and take a peek into the workshop where dugout canoes were created, and become familiar with the life of the local lakeside population.
Hidden corners of the Green Karst and the Park of Military History in Pivka
Capture your experiences in photos and share them on social networks using the hashtags #ifeelsLOVEnia, #greenkarst, #visitpivka and #parkofmilitaryhistory.
Sign up for our monthly newsletter to receive a green piece of Slovenia in your inbox, and learn about holidays, seasonal offers, upcoming events and travel options.
The form contains errors
Please verify the marked fields and try again.
Share with friends
Scroll down until you see the heart icon on the left.
Click on the icon and the content will be added to favourites.
When you revisit the page (in the same browser), the content will still be saved in your favourites.
The General Terms and Conditions determine the conditions and manner of using the Slovenian Tourist Board’s Media Library services. In the Media Library, users have at their disposal high-resolution photos and audio-visual recordings of the products and services offered by Slovenian tourism, which are to be used solely for non-commercial purposes as defined below.
General rules of application
Registration is required to use the Media Library’s services. Registration is available to any legal entity in the Republic of Slovenia and abroad, regardless of their legal form, whose activities involve marketing, promoting and presenting Slovenia as a tourist destination.
Photos and audio-visual recordings (hereafter: materials) may be used free of charge for all non-commercial publications that constitute promotion of Slovenia as a tourist destination, abroad or in the Republic of Slovenia, in accordance with these General Terms and Conditions.
The right to use the materials is not limited in terms of time or place (the use is permitted in Slovenia and other countries) unless a restriction relating to location and duration of use is specifically provided for an individual item of material.
The Slovenian Tourist Board reserves the right to revoke a user’s right to use certain materials at any time.
The rights acquired based on these General Terms and Conditions may not be transferred to third parties.
Citing the source and authorship
Photos and audio-visual recordings may only be used with consistent citation of author/co-authors and source: www.slovenia.info.
Rights of use
A registered user of the Media Library shall obtain the following non-exclusive economic rights to use the downloaded photos and audio-visual recordings:
the right of reproduction and distribution,
the right of making available to the public,
the right of public presentation,
the right of including photos in other copyright work.
The above rights refer to all forms of non-commercial and free-of-charge online posts, print media, audio-visual media services and other communication channels, regardless of the type of media (print, digital), which includes:
Digital catalogues, e-magazines, newsletters (solely for the purposes of free distribution);
Publication in print and other media that report on the Slovenian tourism products and services or promote Slovenia as a tourist destination;
Use on social media as part of organic posts (reporting on an event, press releases (solely unpaid posts);
Printed promotional materials, prospectuses, leaflets, brochures (solely for the purposes of free distribution);
Promotional events in the Republic of Slovenia and abroad (e.g., tourism fairs, exchanges, workshops, presentations, etc.) that are exclusively or predominantly intended to promote Slovenia as a tourist destination.
The above forms of use include solely a free-of-charge form of using materials for the purposes of promoting tourism activities and services in the Republic of Slovenia or presenting Slovenia as a tourist destination.
Prohibited forms of using materials/commercial use of materials
Using materials for commercial purposes, such as reproduction on postcards, T-shirts, books, magnets, embedding audio-visual inserts in one’s own promotional materials, all forms of external advertising (stationary billboards, digital advertising, etc.), use in advertisements unrelated to the promotion of Slovenia as a tourist destination, use on websites that are not intended to present Slovenian tourism products and services and similar activities, is not included in these General Terms and Conditions and is prohibited.
It is strictly prohibited to use materials on media and distribution channels that are marketed or sold to users (books, school textbooks, other commercial publishing, calendars, postcards, fast-moving consumer goods (clothes and other products), advertising of non-tourism products and services, reproduction of materials on vehicles, etc.).
Using audio-visual materials is allowed only in the unchanged form available in the Media Library. Transformations, adaptations, clips, embeddings, and instances of using individual shots in one’s own audio-visual works, even if intended for promotional purposes, is prohibited.
Breaches of General Terms and Conditions
Any breach of economic and/or moral rights of the authors of photographs or audio-visual recordings may constitute a criminal offence and may result in substantive and damage liability of the user.
The entity breaching copyright pertaining to the material shall reimburse the Slovenian Tourist Board for all the damage incurred to it due to the breach of rights.
The Slovenian Tourist Board shall not be liable for any use of photos and video recordings that is contrary to these rules. The user of the material shall be entirely responsible for the content and manner of use.
General provisions
These Media Library General Terms and Conditions shall apply for all instances of using the material unless the Slovenian Tourist Board and user agree on special terms of using the material in advance and in writing for a specific instance of using the material.
These General Terms and Conditions shall be subject to occasional amendments. Upon the user’s publication of the material, the version of the General Terms and Conditions that is current at that particular time shall apply for the use of materials. If the user disagrees with the amendments made to these General Terms and Conditions, they shall immediately cease using the material and remove it from all media and other communication channels.
Alma is a ChatGPT-based virtual travel guide designed to help you find information and inspiration for your next visit to Slovenia. She is full of ideas for great experiences, knows Slovenian destinations and the variety of activities you are particularly interested in, so she can offer you personalised content and inspiring stories available on the official slovenia.info tourism portal.
Our virtual advisor was inspired by the intrepid world traveller Alma M. Karlin; therefore, we named her ALMA.
For an optimal experience, we suggest talking to Alma as a real interlocutor, mentioning the destination you are interested in, the activities you want to experience and when you want to visit Slovenia.
All information provided by Alma is for information purposes only and may contain limitations and errors.
The solution is based on ChatGPT technology, which is owned by OpenAI, and programming upgrades from our partner, Creatim d.o.o.. The content of conversations is retained for 30 days. Access to the content of conversations is limited to authorised persons of the Slovenian Tourist Board and the company Creatim d.o.o., who may process this content solely for the purpose of user support, optimisation, statistical analysis and further development of the Alma service. For the purpose of formulating Alma`s responses, user queries are forwarded to OpenAI servers located outside the EU. The data are encrypted before transmission and when saved to OpenAI servers. OpenAI guarantees compliance with GDPR standards and global best practices in data protection when processing data. Please do not enter your personal information (name, surname, email, phone number, etc.) in the chat window.
Have you met Alma?
Alma is a ChatGPT-based virtual travel guide to help you find information and inspiration for your next visit to Slovenia.
You may ask her anything you want to know about destinations in Slovenia.
I give my consent to the Slovenian Tourist Board to use cookies that enable the display of content (e.g.: audio clips, video clips, images) from other online sources (YouTube, Spotify, etc.) and remember my language selection on the www.slovenia.info website. I also confirm that I have been acquainted with my rights related to the provided personal data.
Personal data controller:
Slovenian Tourist Board, Dimičeva ulica 13, Ljubljana
Phone: +386 1 5898 550
Email: info@slovenia.info
I give permission for the Slovenian Tourist Board to record and store anonymised data about my activity on the website, which will be used to provide a better user experience for visitors to the portal in the future. I also confirm that I have been acquainted with my rights related to the provided personal data.
Personal data controller:
Slovenian Tourist Board, Dimičeva ulica 13, Ljubljana,
Phone: +386 1 5898 550
E-mail: info@slovenia.info
I give permission for the Slovenian Tourist Board to record my activities on the website regarding my visits to individual types of content in order to produce and display better quality content that is of interest to me.
As the Slovenian Tourist Board strives to display high-quality and interesting content on the website, it wishes to measure responses to the displayed notifications and content, track user activity on the website, and create user profiles for targeted advertising, and therefore automatically processes and analyses personal data and assesses user interest in displaying and receiving notifications. I also confirm that I have been acquainted with my rights related to the provided personal data.
Personal data controller:
Slovenian Tourist Board, Dimičeva ulica 13, Ljubljana
Phone: +386 1 5898 550
Email: info@slovenia.info
I give permission for the Slovenian Tourist Board to record and store information about my interests, displays, and clicks on advertising content for the purpose of providing specific, topical, high-quality, and targeted advertising content, as well as for the purpose of measuring the effectiveness of advertising campaigns and limiting the repetition of advertisements. These settings apply to advertisements displayed by the Slovenian Tourist Board via advertising on social media platforms (e.g.: Meta, LinkedIn, etc.), international search engines (e.g.: Google), as well as through online applications and activities that directly address the user. Such cookies allow us to track our campaigns online. I also confirm that I have been acquainted with myrights related to the provided personal data.
Personal data controller:
Slovenian Tourist Board, Dimičeva ulica 13, Ljubljana
Phone: +386 1 5898 550
Email: info@slovenia.info