Križanke
Former Teutonic Knights monastery reworked by Plečnik into an open-air festival venue.
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This guide to Križanke in Ljubljana follows Jože Plečnik, the city's great architect, at eighty years old, when officials asked him in nineteen fifty-two to turn a derelict monastery into a home for the Ljubljana Festival. It reaches back to the Teutonic Knights who arrived here in the thirteenth century and gave the place its name. Best heard standing in the main courtyard, then wandering through to the smaller one locals call Hell.
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