Central Market
Curving riverside colonnade of market halls with a fish market at the waterline and open-air stalls.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Central Market in Ljubljana follows the architect Jože Plečnik and the riverside halls he drew through the nineteen-thirties, on ground cleared after the Easter earthquake of eighteen ninety-five. It asks why a grand two-storey loggia sits in the middle of the colonnade, facing the water. Along the way you'll hear about the butchers and fishmongers at the river's edge, and why the halls bend the way they do. Best heard under the colonnade, facing the Ljubljanica.
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