Thursday Doors, 20/2/20: Ljubljana

• Manja Maksimovič

The keen eye will notice that these are windows in the featured photo, not doors, but many Ljubljana doors are coming up to show you a bit of Slovenian door culture.

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Today we continue where we stopped a while ago on this Thursday: in the old part of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia and my city of birth. The first door in the gallery below might seem familiar as it’s a repeat from that post.

It was a blistering hot July day, even though it doesn’t seem so because the sky was covered.

I remember later that evening that my friends, their Japanese guests, and I were waiting for a table in a pizzeria with all the outdoor tables full. After quite a while we decided to have the pizza indoors but the waiter honestly discouraged us from it because, as he said, there was no air-conditioning inside and we would not enjoy it. So you can imagine how hot it was.

You will notice quite a large amount of doorfies. It’s not that I was searching out reflective doors but at one moment I was passing only this kind of doors. Judging from my grin I didn’t mind it.

Welcome to Ljubljana and if you reach it before I do, greet it for me.

  • Do you see the Castle?
  • Good that it says City Museum above the door or I wouldn’t know it.
  • Tricky. It looks like a church but I’m pretty certain it’s not. Nope, it’s Slovene Geographical Museum.
  • I was still alone then. Why am I grinning so?
  • Salendrova St. First time I hear of it. Really.
  • This door looks like it has been just carved in.
  • My neck gets stuck in this weird photo-taking angle sometimes.
  • One more doorfie. Not my word. Who invented it? Was it Norm? I wish him that good health finds him again.
  • Judging from where my head it, this is definitely a window.
  • I found these micro panties hilarious.
  • Breg means river bank, and in fact the Ljubljanica river is just opposite.
  • On the left they promise Slovenian goodies, such as wine, chocolate, gin and jam.
  • Taka tuka! The island from Pippi Longstocking! Here it’s the name of a creative society.
  • Žiga (Sigmund) Zois leaning out on the right, the Carniolan nobleman and patron of arts.
  • Oh, no, more windows.
  • And a roof terrace because why not. When I’m on the lookout, I see it all.
  • Čevljarska (Cobblers’) St.
  • Then I was joined by my poet friend who is modelling the door now famously dubbed the Submarine Door by you, Thursday Doors crowd.
  • A personal favourite at Dvorni trg.
  • A tired old survivor.
  • I could also crop this photo just underneath the bottom row of windows and sell them to you as doors. But no, they are for Flavia, she is a window fan.
  • This beauty on Wolfova St. is definitely a door and there is another populated one through there.

For Norm Frampton’s Thursday Doors challenge.

41 thoughts on “Thursday Doors, 20/2/20: Ljubljana”

      2. I just realised that you probably pronounce your name with the stress on ‘o’, while in Slovenia all the women named Bojana are called Bojaaaaana! (I had a good friend in primary school called Bojana, and later two card-playing friends with this name and the same surname, to make it harder. They were not related.)

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      5. Of course they do. I meant, once they learn how we pronounce our j’s. They never master the stress, though.
        Germans for instance have both male and female for Nicola, depending on the stress. Kids can be very touchy if you pronounce it wrongly.

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    2. I wish I could be the owner of all those windows! I remember the building, right in the center of Ljubljana… and I also remember the submarine door. Isn’t it close to the library on the upper street, parallel to the river?

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  11. Quite a varied collection this week. I love the one with the beginning with lion head knockers, and of course all of those doorfies made me smile right back at you.
    You know I THINK it was me who coined the phrase “doorfie” but I’m not 100% sure. I do know that “doorscursion” belongs to Joey though 😉

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