Straža Bled
Forested lakeside hill with a chairlift, ski slope, summer toboggan run and sweeping lake views.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Straža, the small hill above the south-east shore of Lake Bled, is about the people behind its chairlift rather than the holidaymakers on it. It follows a Ljubljana cable firm whose usual work was moving timber, an engineer named Aleksander Kostenapfel, and the deal Bled's tourist society struck with them in the early nineteen fifties. Best heard at the lower station, looking up the line of the cable through the spruces.
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