Plečnik's colonnade
Arches on the bank, fish below, cafés above.
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A riverside market by Plečnik: the Central Market stretches between the Triple Bridge and the Dragon Bridge — the open Vodnik Square with stalls of vegetables, fruit and flowers from nearby farms, the covered market of cheese, meat and bakery, and Plečnik's long arcaded colonnade on the bank with fishmongers below and cafés above. Crafts, Slovenian honey, green pumpkin-seed oil (the country's taste) and the rolled potica cake fill the stalls — and on summer Fridays it becomes the Open Kitchen: dozens of restaurants cooking in the square, the city's most famous weekly date. Half an hour in the morning explains Slovenian food and stocks your picnic, with the cathedral directly behind.
Arches on the bank, fish below, cafés above.
Dozens of restaurants cooking in the square on Fridays.
Vodnikov trg, Ljubljana
St Nicholas CathedralA green dome and twin towers above the market: Ljubljana Cathedral (1706) is Ita1 minute walk4.6
Dragon BridgeThe city's emblem on four legs: the Dragon Bridge (1901) was the city's first re2 minutes walk4.5
The Triple BridgeThree bridges in one: the masterpiece of Jože Plečnik, the architect who redrew 2 minutes walk4.6
Mestni trg (Town Square)The main square of Ljubljana's old town, running below the castle hill, lined wi2 minutes walk4.9
Prešeren SquareLjubljana's living room: Prešeren Square is a paved circle at the mouth of the T3 minutes walk4.8Pumpkin-seed oil from Styria, honeys of every kind (Slovenia is a bee country), Piran salt and potica cake — all from the farmers' stalls.