Full-Day Tour of Idrija - A UNESCO Heritage Pearl

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Highlights

Witness the beauty of the Wild Lake

Explore Global Geopark of Idrija

See the beautiful art of Idrija lace

Go to an underground mercury mine

Taste some local food

Idrija, Ljubljana

art, nature, historical

Private Tour

8 Hours

Easy

English, German, Serbian, Slovenian

Description

Sign up for the tour and explore Idrija, the town with 500 years of mining tradition and once having the second-largest mercury mine in the world. Visit an underground mine and the World Heritage Site of the Global Geopark, and see the beautiful Wild Lake. Admire how delicately intertwined are a thousand threads of handmade Idrija lace while strolling around.

Itinerary

Idrija Tour
- Meet the tour guide and start from Ljubljana. In 1 hour from Ljubljana, we arrive in a city of rich cultural and natural heritage, Idrija.
- Admire how delicately intertwined are a thousand threads of the handmade Idrija lace in the Slovenian capital of bobbin lace.
- Taste Idrija delicacies produced from chosen locally accessible ingredients. The Idrija žlikrofi is the staple of the restaurant offer in Idrija.
- Discover the astonishing natural and cultural monuments of the UNESCO site of Global Geopark Idrija.
- See the Wild Lake (Slovene: Divje jezero), a lake near Idrija in western Slovenia and a karst spring of the Vauclusian type. The lake is the source of the Jezernica River, a tributary of the Idrijca and, at 55 metres (180 ft) long, the shortest river in Slovenia. You will also visit an underground mercury mine.
Tour ends.