{"id":1978,"date":"2019-01-25T23:59:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T22:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2019-01-25T23:59:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T22:59:51","slug":"eastern-slovenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/en\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/","title":{"rendered":"EASTERN SLOVENIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1535977151751_59983\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\" data-block-type=\"2\">\n<div class=\"sqs-block-content\">\n<p>Ljubljana may be the present-day capital of Slovenia, but the nation\u2019s historical soul can be found in the towns and countryside of the east, where the Counts of Celje once competed with the House of Habsburg for regional supremacy, where Slovenia\u2019s second largest city Maribor was one of the major industrial centres of Yugoslavia, where Spa tourism first developed in the 19th century in La\u0161ko, where the noblemen of \u017dalec learned to cultivate some of the world\u2019s most prized hops. From the mountainous Sol\u010davsko and Koro\u0161ka regions in the north to Kozanjsko Regional Park in the south to Prekmurje (arguably the country\u2019s friendliest and most unique region) in the far east, find out more about eastern Slovenia\u2019s rich history, vibrant present and bright future.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1979 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EASTERNSLOVENIA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"645\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 622px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 622\/645;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1979\" src=\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EASTERNSLOVENIA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"645\" \/><\/noscript> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1980 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EASTERNSLOVENIA_map1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"600\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 444px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 444\/600;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1980\" src=\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EASTERNSLOVENIA_map1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"600\" \/><\/noscript> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1981 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EASTERNSLOVENIA_map2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"615\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 446px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 446\/615;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1981\" src=\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EASTERNSLOVENIA_map2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"615\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ljubljana may be the present-day capital of Slovenia, but the nation\u2019s historical soul can be found in the towns and countryside of the east, where the Counts of Celje once competed with the House of Habsburg for regional supremacy, where Slovenia\u2019s second largest city Maribor was one of the major industrial centres of Yugoslavia, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,188,180,164],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-best-of-slovenia","7":"category-panonian-slovenia","8":"category-slovenia","9":"category-travel-lifestyle"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EASTERN SLOVENIA - THE Slovenia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EASTERN SLOVENIA - THE Slovenia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ljubljana may be the present-day capital of Slovenia, but the nation\u2019s historical soul can be found in the towns and countryside of the east, where the Counts of Celje once competed with the House of Habsburg for regional supremacy, where Slovenia\u2019s second largest city Maribor was one of the major industrial centres of Yugoslavia, where [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"THE Slovenia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/THESLOVENIA\/?ref=br_rs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-01-25T22:59:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EASTERNSLOVENIA.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"theadmin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"theadmin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"theadmin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/#\/schema\/person\/0a86dc76cbfd2ed860cbb3461f653d91\"},\"headline\":\"EASTERN SLOVENIA\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-01-25T22:59:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-01-25T22:59:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/\"},\"wordCount\":134,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EASTERNSLOVENIA.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"BEST OF SLOVENIA\",\"PANONIAN SLOVENIA\",\"SLOVENIA\",\"TRAVEL\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/\",\"name\":\"EASTERN SLOVENIA - THE Slovenia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EASTERNSLOVENIA.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-01-25T22:59:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-01-25T22:59:51+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EASTERNSLOVENIA.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EASTERNSLOVENIA.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/\",\"name\":\"THE Slovenia\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"THE Slovenia\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/THE_logo_final_beli_napis.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/THE_logo_final_beli_napis.jpg\",\"width\":1535,\"height\":1574,\"caption\":\"THE Slovenia\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/THESLOVENIA\/?ref=br_rs\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/the.slovenia\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/the-slovenia\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/#\/schema\/person\/0a86dc76cbfd2ed860cbb3461f653d91\",\"name\":\"theadmin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0e20ec9e2c5a701239f380685df7c94bcf45f48ce6f6af5c226567ebee123581?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0e20ec9e2c5a701239f380685df7c94bcf45f48ce6f6af5c226567ebee123581?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"theadmin\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/en\/author\/theadmin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"EASTERN SLOVENIA - THE Slovenia","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"EASTERN SLOVENIA - THE Slovenia","og_description":"Ljubljana may be the present-day capital of Slovenia, but the nation\u2019s historical soul can be found in the towns and countryside of the east, where the Counts of Celje once competed with the House of Habsburg for regional supremacy, where Slovenia\u2019s second largest city Maribor was one of the major industrial centres of Yugoslavia, where [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/","og_site_name":"THE Slovenia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/THESLOVENIA\/?ref=br_rs","article_published_time":"2019-01-25T22:59:51+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EASTERNSLOVENIA.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"theadmin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"theadmin","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/"},"author":{"name":"theadmin","@id":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/#\/schema\/person\/0a86dc76cbfd2ed860cbb3461f653d91"},"headline":"EASTERN SLOVENIA","datePublished":"2019-01-25T22:59:51+00:00","dateModified":"2019-01-25T22:59:51+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/"},"wordCount":134,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EASTERNSLOVENIA.jpg","articleSection":["BEST OF SLOVENIA","PANONIAN SLOVENIA","SLOVENIA","TRAVEL"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/","url":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/","name":"EASTERN SLOVENIA - THE Slovenia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EASTERNSLOVENIA.jpg","datePublished":"2019-01-25T22:59:51+00:00","dateModified":"2019-01-25T22:59:51+00:00","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/travel-lifestyle\/eastern-slovenia\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EASTERNSLOVENIA.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EASTERNSLOVENIA.jpg"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/","name":"THE Slovenia","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/#organization","name":"THE Slovenia","url":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/THE_logo_final_beli_napis.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/THE_logo_final_beli_napis.jpg","width":1535,"height":1574,"caption":"THE Slovenia"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/THESLOVENIA\/?ref=br_rs","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/the.slovenia\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/the-slovenia\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/#\/schema\/person\/0a86dc76cbfd2ed860cbb3461f653d91","name":"theadmin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0e20ec9e2c5a701239f380685df7c94bcf45f48ce6f6af5c226567ebee123581?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0e20ec9e2c5a701239f380685df7c94bcf45f48ce6f6af5c226567ebee123581?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"theadmin"},"url":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/en\/author\/theadmin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}