Kranj Travel Guide

 Willettsworld Says:  This charming quiet pedestrian back street runs north to south in the eastern part of the Old Town. It has several charming old houses located on it including Haynes House and Bleiweis House in the northern section and the Tollhouse in the southern section along with the... 

 Willettsworld Says:  This is another house that dates from the 15th century and originally consisted of three independent dwellings that were then made into one in the 16th century. Further reconstructions were carried out in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries to give it its present form. The... 

 Willettsworld Says:  I think this house was built in 1495 and was owned from new until the 17th century by the aristocratic family known as the Egks. In the first half of the 18th century its owners were the Floding barons. It then passed into the hands of many merchants and brewers until Mihael... 

 Willettsworld Says:  This regional archaeological and ethnological museum in the Town Hall charts the history of Kranj over 750 years through various artefacts such as furniture (including a large collection of storage trunks), musical instruments, tools, pots, paintings, china, silverware,... 

 Willettsworld Says:  The Town Hall on Glavni trg is formed from the joining of two buildings. The first building, with the colonnade portico on the corner that contains a Roman sarcophagus, and clock tower, is the Old Town Hall that was built in the early 16th century. The second building was a... 

 Willettsworld Says:  Most of what is seen today was built in the 15th century when the Turks invaded. The whole area used to be fortified under the Romans right up to the Middle Ages. In the middle of the 16th century, Janez Khisl from Fužine bought the castle and converted it into a residential... 

 Willettsworld Says:  This three-story circular defence tower was built in the 16th century and is the only completely preserved tower in the city’s defence wall. The tower was reconstructed several times, and in the first half of the 19th century, the annex for a staircase was added. In 1833, it... 

 Willettsworld Says:  This church stands in the area known as Pungert which is at the southernmost tip of the Old Town. It was built in the 1470’s as a plague church and is dedicated to Saints Rok, Fabian and Sebastian who protected the faithful from the plague. The bell tower was added to the... 

 Willettsworld Says:  This church is dedicated to the Holy Mother of the Rosary and was built in the first decade of the 16th century above the lower city gate. In the 1570’s it served as a place of worship for Protestants and during this period all the original furnishings were lost. The church... 

 Willettsworld Says:  Slovenia’s famous architect, Jože Plečnik, designed this monumental entrance to the Old Town between 1953 and 1959. It involved the construction of arcades along the presbytery of the Rosary Church, the installation of a fountain, and the reconstruction of the façade of... 

 Willettsworld Says:  On the southern side of the parish church is the Majdiè fountain, the work of the sculptor Franc Berneker, with statues of John the Steadfast (Janez Nepomuk) and the Queen. The lapidary features Roman and medieval epitaphs built earlier in the walls of the parish church or... 

 Willettsworld Says:  The vaulted roof inside the church was built after 1452 and the original paintings on the joints were re-discovered during renovations in 2004. The central star is painted with vegetation decorations and frescos of angels (workshop of the master of Žirovnica, 1461). The... 

 Willettsworld Says:  The parish church is dedicated to four saints: Cantius, Cantianus, Cantianilla and Protus. The current church dates from around 1400 and is built on the location of an earlier church that was built in the 6th century. This church was then damaged by Hungarian invasions in... 

 Willettsworld Says:  In the square beside the parish church is this large bronze statue to Slovenia’s greatest poet, Dr. France Prešeren (1800-1849) who lived and died in the town. It was sculpted by Frančišek Smerdu and Peter Loboda and erected in 1952. 

 Willettsworld Says:  This theatre is located next to the parish church in a wide passage that once extended down to the Kokra River. It was built in 1909 as a public house for educational activities and entertaining associations. The building was rebuilt in 1952 by architect Jože Plečnik... 

 Willettsworld Says:  The Presbytery was built in 1749 and is one of the most important monuments of Baroque architecture in Kranj. The ground plan of the house is in the shape of a horseshoe, which encloses the arcade courtyard, and is open towards the Kokra Canyon. The buildings most prominent... 

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 viddra Says:  Kranj's at the intersection of major highways running from northern Europe to the Adriatic Sea and from Western to Eastern Europe. Roads from the border crossings at Jezersko, Ljubelj, the Karavanke Tunnel, Ratece and Podkoren lead here.Kranj's 7km from the international...