Church of St. Florian
Baroque church raised to the patron saint of firefighters after a great fire swept the old squares.
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This guide to the Church of St. Florian in Ljubljana starts on the Upper Square in September 1660, as fire sweeps through the old streets beneath the castle hill. It follows the townspeople's turn to a Roman soldier-saint drowned in an Alpine river, and the belief that one saint could stand guard over a whole neighbourhood. Stand facing the entrance, where a Baroque statue by Francesco Robba looks down on the square.
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