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A beautiful aerial view of Ljubljana Castle and the Old Town Centre, 2008

Municipality of Ljubljana covers a total area of 275 square kilometres and has a population of 264,269 people (2002) living in 38 settlements. It is one of 11 Slovene Urban Municipalities and incorporates the Slovene capital city of Ljubljana, the country’s largest city as well as its political, administrative, economic, educational and cultural centre.

Ljubljana was named the 10th UNESCO World Book Capital in 2010 for one year. By becoming part of the Creative Cities Network, Ljubljana has been assigned a permanent City of Literature designation by UNESCO in December 2015. Since 2011 the city of Ljubljana is also a member of the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) offering residency to politically exiled writers and artists.

The European Prize for Urban Public Space 2012 was awarded for the renovation of the banks of the Ljubljanica River in the old city center. In June 2014 Ljubljana was named European Green Capital 2016.

Funding of culture

The Board for Cultural Activities of the City Council is responsible for municipal funding of arts and culture and other activities in the field. Annually the Župančič Award is bestowed to the outstanding creators in the field of arts and culture.

The Department of Culture of Municipality of Ljubljana functions as a governance and professional body in charge of public cultural institutions (11 municipal cultural institutions) and non-profit cultural organisations in the municipality, seeking to provide a creative environment for cultural associations, groups and individuals in the field of art and culture and to stimulate amateur cultural activity. The Department is also responsible for cultural heritage, local monuments and infrastructure.

A tender for co-financing of cultural programmes and projects is issued annually (usually at the end of the year). Other bids for various initiatives are issued throughout the year.

Municipal cultural institutions

Out of 29 public cultural institutions located in the city, 11 of them have been founded by the Municipality of Ljubljana. The Ljubljana City Library consists of 6 libraries and their branches round the city, the 3 theatre houses include the Ljubljana City Theatre (MGL), Mladinsko Theatre and Ljubljana Puppet Theatre), the major event organisers are Festival Ljubljana Public Institute originating from 1952 and the newly established Ljubljanski grad Public Institute, while a centre for children's and youth creativity since 1963 is Pionirski dom Youth Culture Centre. The visual arts and heritage municipal institutions are the International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana and the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana that manages also the Plečnik House. Recently (re)established institutions are Kinodvor Cinema, Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture and the Španski borci Culture Centre, a significant contemporary dance facility.

Hidden Dance Walk - Španski borci 15.9.2015 by Dusan Tesanovic on YouTube

International projects and networking

The Municipality of Ljubljana has signed a number of inter-municipal agreements with other cities of the world: in 1964 with Pesaro and Parma (Italy), in 1966 with Chemnitz (Germany), in 1967 with Bratislava (Slovakia), in 1969 with Sousse (Tunisia), in 1977 with Wiesbaden (Germany) and Tbilisi (Georgia), in 1979 with Leverkusen (Germany) and Rijeka (Croatia), in 1981 with Chengdu (China), in 1999 with Vienna (Austria) in 2000 with Athens (Greece) and Moscow (Russia), in 2001 with Zagreb (Croatia), in 2002 with Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in 2004 with Brussels (Belgium), in 2007 with Skopje (Macedonia), 2010 with Belgrade (Serbia), 2013 with Baku (Azerbaijan), 2014 with Fujairah (United Arab Emirates) and in 2015 with Ankara (Turkey).

The first project for which the Municipality of Ljubljana received funding by the European Commission was the SCENE project by partners from Bologna, Ljubljana, Stockholm and Vilnius, members of the Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe (ASCE). The project funded the first phase of renovation of the Žale ossuary (a memorial of the international victims of the IWW, a modernist building by Edvard Ravnikar. A Guidebook to European Cemeteries was published and Ljubljana took part in the first festival dedicated to European cemeteries in 2004.

Since 1999 the Municipality of Ljubljana and Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia have collaborated in a network of 23 European cities that joined in the Réseau Art Nouveau Network (RANN) in order to encourage research, popularization and protection of Art Nouveau (Secession) heritage. In 2006 two international seminars – National Identity and International Trends and Tourism and Art Nouveau – were organised in Ljubljana, while in 2008 the exhibition Art Nouveau & Society at the National Gallery of Slovenia presented the pan-European movement for the modernisation of art.

From April 2010 till April 2011 Ljubljana acted as the UNESCO World's Book Capital, which concluded with the adoption of the Ljubljana Resolution on Books, a document that "stresses the importance of books as key vehicles of human development, cultural pluralism and sustainable diversity". During that year books and reading were the central theme of events across Slovenia, the city gained a new Trubar Literature House, the arts and culture printed fortnightly, the Pogledi Newspaper was launched.

Ljubljana has pursued the active involvement with literature and obtained the permanent UNESCO title of the City of Literature in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in December 2015.

In April 2011 Ljubljana became a city of refuge, a member of the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) of more than 50 cities that offer residency to politically exiled writers and artists. So far Ljubljana has hosted Zineb El Rhazoui, Ali Amar (both from Morocco), and Girma T. Fantaye (Ethiopia). In May 2014 the Municipality of Ljubljana hosted the ICORN Network General Assembly.

Urban public space solutions

In 2010 Municipality of Ljubljana joined the European project Second Chance in which it takes the transformation of the former Rog factory as a case study, compared to Nuerenberg (former AEG factory), Leipzig (HALLE 14 of the former Cotton Spinning Mill), Venice (the Arsenale), and Krakow (the tram depot in the St. Lawrence district).

Ljubljana has won the 2012 European Prize for Urban Public Space for the renovation of the banks of the Ljubljanica River in the old city center, sharing the top prize with Barcelona’s landscaping of Turo de Rovira. In June 2014 Ljubljana was named European Green Capital 2016.

External links

Municipality of Ljubljana website
Department for Culture web page
Ljubljana on Wikipedia
Visit Ljubljana - website by Ljubljana Tourist Board
Ljubljana photos on Kraji.eu

International projects

Texts and studies on Ljubljana

Guides & curiosities

Ljubljana on The New York Times website
Sounding Out in Ljubljana by Igor Bašin on Songlines Magazines
Where not to park in Ljubljana (December 2010)
Time lapse - A day in Ljubljana, a short promo with half a million pictures

Historical visits

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubljana_railway_station Memorial plaque to James Joyce

Gallery

Opening of graphic design exhibition Najboljše iz Vojvodine at the Atrium of the Magistrat Gallery (Ljubljana Town Hall) in Ljubljana

A view of Ljubljana Castle before the storm, 2012

Ljubljana Castle and Slovene Philharmonic, shot from the recently renewed Congress Square [Kongresni trg], 2012

Ljubljana by night

A late afternoon winter day glimpse of the old town of Ljubljana, 2014

Street musicians playing under the statue of a romantic poet France Prešeren on Prešeren Square, the central square in Ljubljana, 2014

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-[[Municipality of Ljubljana]] covers a total area of 275 square kilometres and has a population of 264,269 people (2002) living in 38 settlements. It is one of 11 [[:Category:Urban municipalities|Slovene Urban Municipalities]] and incorporates the Slovene capital city of Ljubljana, the country’s largest city as well as its political, administrative, economic, educational and cultural centre. The Municipality of Ljubljana has signed a number of inter-municipal agreements with other cities of the world: in 1964 with Pesaro and Parma (Italy), in 1966 with Chemnitz (Germany), in 1967 with Bratislava (Slovakia), in 1969 with Sousse (Tunisia), in 1977 with Wiesbaden (Germany) and Tbilisi (Georgia), in 1979 with Leverkusen (Germany) and Rijeka (Croatia), in 1981 with Chengdu (China), in 1999 with Vienna (Austria) in 2000 with Athens (Greece) and Moscow (Russia), in 2001 with Zagreb (Croatia), in 2002 with Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in 2004 with Brussels (Belgium), in 2007 with Skopje (Macedonia) and in 2010 with Belgrade (Serbia).
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+[[Municipality of Ljubljana]] covers a total area of 275 square kilometres and has a population of 264,269 people (2002) living in 38 settlements. It is one of 11 [[:Category:Urban municipalities|Slovene Urban Municipalities]] and incorporates the Slovene capital city of Ljubljana, the country’s largest city as well as its political, administrative, economic, educational and cultural centre.
+Ljubljana was named the 10th [[World Book Capital Ljubljana 2010|UNESCO World Book Capital]] in 2010 for one year. By becoming part of the Creative Cities Network, Ljubljana has been assigned a permanent City of Literature designation by UNESCO in December 2015. Since 2011 the city of Ljubljana is also a member of the [[Ljubljana City of Refuge (ICORN)| International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN)]] offering residency to politically exiled writers and artists.
+The European Prize for Urban Public Space 2012 was awarded for the renovation of the banks of the Ljubljanica River in the old city center. In June 2014 Ljubljana was named European Green Capital 2016.
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 The Board for Cultural Activities of the City Council is responsible for municipal funding of arts and culture and other activities in the field. Annually the [[Župančič Award of the City of Ljubljana|Župančič Award]] is bestowed to the outstanding creators in the field of arts and culture.
-The Department of Culture of Municipality of Ljubljana functions as a governance and professional body in charge of public cultural institutions (16 municipal cultural institutions) and non-profit cultural organisations in the municipality, seeking to provide a creative environment for cultural associations, groups and individuals in the field of art and culture and to stimulate amateur cultural activity. The Department is also responsible for cultural heritage, local monuments and infrastructure.
+The Department of Culture of Municipality of Ljubljana functions as a governance and professional body in charge of public cultural institutions (11 municipal cultural institutions) and non-profit cultural organisations in the municipality, seeking to provide a creative environment for cultural associations, groups and individuals in the field of art and culture and to stimulate amateur cultural activity. The Department is also responsible for cultural heritage, local monuments and infrastructure.
 A tender for co-financing of cultural programmes and projects is issued annually (usually at the end of the year). Other bids for various initiatives are issued throughout the year.
 ==Municipal cultural institutions==
-Municipal cultural institutions include the [[Municipal Library of Ljubljana]] consisting of 6 libraries and their branches round the city, the [[Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana]], the [[International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana]], the [[Festival Ljubljana Public Institute]], the [[Ljubljana City Theatre (MGL)]],[[Mladinsko Theatre]] and [[Ljubljana Puppet Theatre]], and some recently (re)established institutions: [[Kinodvor Cinema]], [[Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture]] and [[Španski borci Culture Centre]].
-==Ljubljana City of Literature==
+Out of 29 public cultural institutions located in the city, 11 of them have been founded by the Municipality of Ljubljana. The [[Ljubljana City Library]] consists of 6 libraries and their branches round the city, the 3 theatre houses include the [[Ljubljana City Theatre (MGL)]], [[Mladinsko Theatre]] and [[Ljubljana Puppet Theatre]]), the major event organisers are [[Festival Ljubljana Public Institute]] originating from 1952 and the newly established [[Ljubljanski grad Public Institute]], while a centre for children's and youth creativity since 1963 is [[Pionirski dom Youth Culture Centre]]. The visual arts and heritage municipal institutions are the [[International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana]] and the [[Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana]] that manages also the [[Plečnik House]]. Recently (re)established institutions are [[Kinodvor Cinema]], [[Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture]] and the [[Španski borci Culture Centre]], a significant contemporary dance facility.
-From April 2010 till April 2011 Ljubljana acted as the UNESCO World's Book Capital which concluded with the adoption of the ''Ljubljana Resolution on Books'', a document that "stresses the importance of books as key vehicles of human development, cultural pluralism and sustainable diversity". In April 2011 Ljubljana also became a member of the ICORN network of cities of refuge to persecuted writers. Ljubljana strives to pursue the active involvement with literature also with the candidature to obtain the permanent UNESCO title of the City of Literature.
+{{YouTube|rpereN26uwI}}
+==International projects and networking==
+The Municipality of Ljubljana has signed a number of inter-municipal agreements with other cities of the world: in 1964 with Pesaro and Parma (Italy), in 1966 with Chemnitz (Germany), in 1967 with Bratislava (Slovakia), in 1969 with Sousse (Tunisia), in 1977 with Wiesbaden (Germany) and Tbilisi (Georgia), in 1979 with Leverkusen (Germany) and Rijeka (Croatia), in 1981 with Chengdu (China), in 1999 with Vienna (Austria) in 2000 with Athens (Greece) and Moscow (Russia), in 2001 with Zagreb (Croatia), in 2002 with Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in 2004 with Brussels (Belgium), in 2007 with Skopje (Macedonia), 2010 with Belgrade (Serbia), 2013 with Baku (Azerbaijan), 2014 with Fujairah (United Arab Emirates) and in 2015 with Ankara (Turkey).
+The first project for which the Municipality of Ljubljana received funding by the European Commission was the SCENE project by partners from Bologna, Ljubljana, Stockholm and Vilnius, members of the Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe (ASCE). The project funded the first phase of renovation of the Žale ossuary (a memorial of the international victims of the IWW, a modernist building by [[Edvard Ravnikar]]. ''A Guidebook to European Cemeteries'' was published and Ljubljana took part in the first festival dedicated to European cemeteries in 2004.
+Since 1999 the Municipality of Ljubljana and [[Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia]] have collaborated in a network of 23 European cities that joined in the Réseau Art Nouveau Network (RANN) in order to encourage research, popularization and protection of Art Nouveau (Secession) heritage. In 2006 two international seminars &ndash; ''National Identity and International Trends'' and ''Tourism and Art Nouveau'' &ndash; were organised in Ljubljana, while in 2008 the exhibition ''Art Nouveau & Society'' at the [[National Gallery of Slovenia]] presented the pan-European movement for the modernisation of art.
+From April 2010 till April 2011 Ljubljana acted as the [[World Book Capital Ljubljana 2010|UNESCO World's Book Capital]], which concluded with the adoption of the Ljubljana Resolution on Books, a document that "stresses the importance of books as key vehicles of human development, cultural pluralism and sustainable diversity". During that year books and reading were the central theme of events across Slovenia, the city gained a new [[Trubar Literature House]], the arts and culture printed fortnightly, the [[Pogledi Newspaper]] was launched.
+Ljubljana has pursued the active involvement with literature and obtained the permanent UNESCO title of the City of Literature in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in December 2015.
+In April 2011 Ljubljana became [[Ljubljana City of Refuge (ICORN)| a city of refuge]], a member of the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) of more than 50 cities that offer residency to politically exiled writers and artists. So far Ljubljana has hosted Zineb El Rhazoui, Ali Amar (both from Morocco), and Girma T. Fantaye (Ethiopia). In May 2014 the Municipality of Ljubljana hosted the ICORN Network General Assembly.
+== Urban public space solutions ==
+In 2010 Municipality of Ljubljana joined the European project ''Second Chance'' in which it takes the transformation of the former [[Tovarna Rog|Rog factory]] as a case study, compared to Nuerenberg (former AEG factory), Leipzig (HALLE 14 of the former Cotton Spinning Mill), Venice (the Arsenale), and Krakow (the tram depot in the St. Lawrence district).
+Ljubljana has won the 2012 European Prize for Urban Public Space for the renovation of the banks of the Ljubljanica River in the old city center, sharing the top prize with Barcelona’s landscaping of Turo de Rovira. In June 2014 Ljubljana was named European Green Capital 2016.
 ==See also==
+*[[Ljubljana City of Refuge (ICORN)]]
 *[[World Book Capital Ljubljana 2010]]
 *Municipal cultural institutions
-**[[Municipal Library of Ljubljana]]
+**[[Ljubljana City Library]]
 **[[Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana]]
 **[[International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana]]
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 **[[Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture]]
 **[[Španski borci Culture Centre]]
+**[[Pionirski dom Youth Culture Centre]]
 **[[Festival Ljubljana Public Institute]]
-*[[Župančič Award of the City of Ljubljana]]
 *[[Kresija Gallery]]
 *[[Magistrat Gallery]]
+*[[Župančič Award of the City of Ljubljana]]
 * [[SI-1000 Ljubljana|The list of cultural organisations located in Ljubljana]]
 * [[:Category:Urban municipalities|List of urban municipalities]]
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 ==External links==
 * [http://www.ljubljana.si/en/ Municipality of Ljubljana website]
+* [http://www.ljubljana.si/en/municipality/administration/departments/culture/ Department for Culture web page]
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubljana Ljubljana on Wikipedia]
 * [http://www.visitljubljana.si/ Visit Ljubljana] - website by Ljubljana Tourist Board
 * [http://kraji.eu/slovenija/ljubljana/eng Ljubljana photos on Kraji.eu]
-References
-* [http://www.icorn.org/articles.php?var=268 New ICORN member city: Ljubljana!]
-Guides
+International projects
+* [https://epk.ljubljana.si/en/ Ljubljana ECoC 2025 Programme]
+* [http://www.cityofliterature.com/cities-of-literature/cities-of-literature/ljubljana Ljubljana presentation on the City of Literature website]
+* [http://ec.europa.eu/environment/europeangreencapital/ljubljana-wins-european-green-capital-award-2016/index.html Ljubljana &ndash; European Green Capital 2016]
+* [http://www.ljubljana.si/si/ljubljana/pobratena-mesta-zdruzenja A list of international (city) networks]
+* [http://www.artnouveau-net.eu/Cities/FL/Ljubljana/tabid/96/Agg1202_SelectTab/1/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Ljubljana on the Artnouveau-net website]
+* [http://www.significantcemeteries.org/2011/11/zale-cemetery-ljubljana-slovenia.html Žale Cemetery on ASCE website]
+* [http://www.scene-project.net SCENE project]
+* [http://www.secondchanceproject.eu/static/ljubljana.php Second Chance project website]
+* [http://www.publicspace.org/en/works/g072-preureditve-nabrezij-in-mostovi-na-ljubljanici/prize:2012 Info on the EU Prize for the Renovation of the banks of the River Ljubljanica]
+Texts and studies on Ljubljana
+*[http://www.oppla.eu/casestudy/17284 ''Ljubljana: Nature-based Solutions (NBS) for Urban Regeneration and Wellbeing'' on the Oppla.eu portal]
+*[http://www.blog.urbact.eu/2018/01/ljubljana-from-revitalisation-to-gentrification/ Ljubljana from revitalisation to gentrification, a text on Blog.urbact.eu ] by [[Aidan Cerar]], [[Institute for Spatial Policies]]
+Guides & curiosities
 * [http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/04/10/travel/20110410-surfacing.html Ljubljana on The New York Times website]
 *[http://www.songlines.co.uk/documents/city-guides/Ljubljana.pdf ''Sounding Out in Ljubljana''] by [[Igor Bašin]] on ''Songlines Magazines''
 *[http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2010/12/06/where-not-to-illegally-park-in-ljubljana/ Where not to park in Ljubljana (December 2010)]
+*[http://vimeo.com/33596571 Time lapse - A day in Ljubljana], a short promo with half a million pictures
 Historical visits
-* [http://slonews.sta.si/index.php?id=1049&s=44 James Joyce's night in Ljubljana]
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubljana_railway_station Memorial plaque to James Joyce
-* [http://www.gustavmahler2010.cz/Mahler-Zivot.aspx Gustav Mahler, a conductor in Ljubljana 1881&ndash;1882]
 {{gallery}}
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 [[Category:Urban municipalities]]
 [[Category:World Book Capital Ljubljana 2010]]
+[[Category:European Capital of Culture 2025 in Slovenia]]
+[[Category:Architecture funding]]
+[[Category:Visual arts funding]]
+[[Category:New media art funding]]
+[[Category:Theatre funding]]
+[[Category:Dance funding]]
+[[Category:Literature funding]]
+[[Category:Music funding]]
+[[Category:Museum funding]]
+[[Category:EU funding of Slovene organisations (Culture and MEDIA Programmes)]]
+[[Category:EU Culture funding recipient]]
+[[Category:Architecture_funding,_professional_and_support_services]]
+[[Category:Dance_funding,_professional_and_support_services]]
+[[Category:Funding,_professional_and_support_services]]
+[[Category:Literature_funding,_professional_and_support_services]]
+[[Category:Museum_funding,_professional_and_support_services]]
+[[Category:Music_funding,_professional_and_support_services]]
+[[Category:New_media_art_funding,_professional_and_support_services]]
+[[Category:Theatre_funding,_professional_and_support_services]]

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Funding of culture

Municipal cultural institutions

International projects and networking

Urban public space solutions

See also

External links

Gallery

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