RADOVLJICA: HISTORICAL

This medieval town has an attractive old centre that has been carefully restored and protected as well as a lovely castle park. The original medieval walls encircle the only surviving moat in Slovenia. A number of museums hold a rich cultural and ethnographic heritage whilst the rows of late medieval, renaissance and baroque civic houses are venues of many varied events.

The Radovljica Festival is the oldest festival of early music in Slovenia. The Path of Venus event evokes a medieval way of life, and during the Linhart Days, held in July, the town centre is filled with theatre, music and dance groups. 

Radovljica is the hometown of Anton Tomaž Linhart, the main character of the Slovenian enlightenment and pioneer of dramatic arts, theatre and historiography. The town preserves his memory in the museum as well as through various events.

The Apiculture Museum in the old town centre is the place to learn about this important aspect of the town’s heritage. The museum holds a collection of painted beehive doors, often humorously illustrated, and which are now an indispensable and unique souvenir of the Gorenjska region.

This beautifully decorated honey-bread confection can also be eaten! These popular sweet products are best known when shaped as a heart, and the most beautiful of them are preserved in the museum collection of the Lectar Restaurant in Radovljica, where there is also a dedicated workshop making these ‘Lectaran Hearts’.