Culinary time machine

Travel through time and taste the castle's history

Enjoy a unique foodie experience on a six-course culinary walk accompanied by wine, where you will travel through six pivotal periods that marked the history of Ljubljana Castle and the development of the city, accompanied by a castle guide and performances by costumed characters.

At each of the culinary time stations, you will be greeted by a historical figure who will serve you food in a manner appropriate for a certain period, while also giving you a closer look at their everyday life, habits and customs. You will taste dishes in a modern guise prepared by the castle chefs – everything from the Roman-era Emona, the Middle Ages, the period of Napoleon's Illyrian Provinces, to the dark period of penitentiaries and the beginning of the 20th century.

So what did patricians and bourgeois families eat? What food was given to prisoners in their cells and what did they drink during their stay in prison at Ljubljana Castle?

How the experience unfolds:

• Participants gather on the bridge in front of the castle entrance.
• An introductory greeting by a Roman soldier and a priestess. A walk to the room where the first course is served (homemade hoppy sourdough bread called pogača, cottage cheese, herbs).
• Reception by the Knight George, a walk to the Archers’ Tower, tasting the second course (bread with sausage, mustard seeds and microgreens).
• A walk to the Pentagonal Tower, a meeting with the Emperor Frederick and his wife Eleanor. Tasting the third course (buckwheat mush with root vegetables, cauliflower cream sauce, hazelnuts, smoked trout).
• A walk to the castle chapel, reception by a Napoleonic soldier and a nun and nurse in one. The tour continues to Erasmus’s Tower, tasting the fourth course (French-style veal dish).
• Visit to the prison, reception by a costumed prisoner. Tasting the fifth course in the castle wine shop (sweet millet mush with dry prunes and garnished with chopped walnuts).
• A walk to the castle courtyard, reception by Ivan Hribar, the one-time mayor of Ljubljana. The culinary adventure ends with dessert (potica).

• All dishes will be prepared by the castle chefs, and the wine pairing includes vintages from Slovenian wine-growing regions and wine straight from the Castle Vineyard itself.

Availability: all year round

Duration of experience: 120–150 minutes

Location: Ljubljana Castle, Grajska planota 1, 1000 Ljubljana

Price: 1,000.00 EUR/package (1-10 persons), 70.00 EUR/person (for each additional person)

The experience includes:

• a guided tour with scenes enacted by impersonators,
• a six-course culinary walk with a selected wine pairing,

• admission ticket to the castle and the funicular.

Find out more about the experience

Javni zavod Ljubljanski grad
Grajska planota 1, Ljubljana
1000 Ljubljana
+386 (0)1 306 42 93
virtualni-grad@ljubljanskigrad.si

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