Cobblers' Bridge
Balustraded stone footbridge by Plečnik, lined with columns and lamps over a medieval river crossing.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Cobblers' Bridge in Ljubljana starts with a puzzle in stone: a crossing lined with columns, and the question of what they are for. It reaches back to the medieval wooden bridge and the tradesmen who kept booths on it, then to the architect Jože Plečnik and his remaking of the Ljubljanica riverbanks in the early nineteen thirties. Best heard standing at the centre of the bridge, between the two lamp pillars.
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