Experience a world-class gastronomic adventure in Slovenia's deepest dining room. Enter a time machine and become a part of an underground adventure on one of the thickest layers of coal in the world.
Go down into the Coal Mining Museum of Slovenia in the oldest lift in Slovenia. Experience the world of mining and world-class cuisine in Slovenia's deepest dining room.
After the miners' greeting "Good luck!", take the oldest elevator in Slovenia and descend to the deepest dining room, 160 metres underground, where you will enjoy a four-course “Štajger” (the mining foreman’s) meal. As you enjoy some music and an entertainment programme, use all of your senses to taste the world-class culinary masterpieces as a modern version of dishes once enjoyed by miners. After a ride on an underground railway, you’ll be able to enjoy a glass of sparkling wine in the mine’s Black Changing Room.
After the final underground train ride, you’ll visit the Black Changing Room where you’ll be served a glass of world-class sparkling wine.
Timetable: a few times a year at pre-arranged times and upon prior arrangement
Duration: 3 hours
Start: Coal Mining Museum of Slovenia, Old Mine Shaft – Koroška Cesta Road, Velenje
Price: 800 EUR per person (2 persons), 550 EUR per person (4 persons), 420 EUR per person (6–9 persons), 320 EUR per person (10–19 persons), 185 EUR per person (over 20 persons). The price includes:
a surprise souvenir.
Awaken all of your five senses at this unique underground coal mining museum.
Zavod za turizem Šaleške doline
Stari trg 3
3320 Velenje
+386 3 896 17 15
turizem@velenje.si
If all of the lignite excavated in the Velenje Mine were loaded onto railway carriages, it would allow us to build a structure that would circle the Earth twice.
The Velenje Coal Mine with its still active 55-kilometre-long tunnels is one of the rare coal mining museums in this part of Europe.
Velenje is also known as the ‘Socialist Miracle’, because the town grew and developed with the help of local volunteers and ‘udarniks’, also known as shock workers.
Due to coal excavation, lakes were created in Velenje, where a tourist and recreational centre with one of the best natural beaches in Slovenia is now located.
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