FREE LONELY PLANET SLOVENIA PDF Carolyn Bain,Steve Fallon | 288 pages | 17 May 2016 | Lonely Planet Publications Ltd | 9781743215722 | English | Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia Why I fell in love with Slovenia | Travel | The Guardian Top Choice Church in Hrastovlje. What attracts most people to Lonely Planet Slovenia little church is the famous Dance of Death or Danse Macabre, a fresco Lonely Planet Slovenia shows 11 skeletons leading the same number of people forward to a freshly dug grave. A 12th holds open Carnival in Ptuj. Ptuj marks Shrovetide with Kurentovanje, a rite of spring and fertility that dates to the time of the early Slavs and is now an organised carnival and centrepiece of Ptuj's calendar. Festivities are spread over Top Choice Slovenian in Kobarid. Provenance is everything at this restaurant in Staro Selo, just west of town and one Lonely Planet Slovenia the best in the country. 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