The Ljubljana works of Jože Plečnik

Map of 6 locations in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Between the wars Jože Plečnik reworked the public spaces of his home city with modest means, adding to what was already there rather than clearing it: a pedestrian deck beside an 1842 bridge, a park inside Roman walls, steps down to a river. These works were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2021, and they follow the two routes the nomination describes. One is the water axis of the Ljubljanica embankments and bridges, the other the land axis running along Vegova Street to Congress Square.

Places in this collection

  • Roman wall, Mirje — In the 1930s Plečnik restored the surviving Roman town walls at Mirje. He built them up higher and added a stone pyramid and gates to the e…
  • Congress Square — The square, together with Zvezda (Star) Park, is the end point of the land axis in the World Heritage listing. The route is the Green Prome…
  • Trnovski pristan embankment — The embankment is lined with broad stone steps that run down to the water. The UNESCO nomination names it as the upstream starting point of…
  • Cobblers' Bridge — A covered wooden bridge once stood here between Mestni trg and Novi trg, two major parts of medieval Ljubljana, and cobblers kept their wor…
  • Triple Bridge — The central span has stood since 1842, when it replaced a medieval wooden bridge on the route linking north-western Europe with the south-e…
  • Trnovo Bridge — Built between 1929 and 1932, the bridge was the centrepiece of Plečnik's reconstruction of the Gradaščica channel embankments. It carries m…

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