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Maribor

Description: Maribor (German: Marburg an der Drau, rarely Italian: Marburgo) is a city in Slovenia and the seat of the Maribor urban ... more

Maribor ... municipality. With a population of 108,000 as of 2002, it is the second-largest city in the country. Maribor lies on the river Drava at the meeting point of the Pohorje mountain, the Drava valley, the Drava plain, and the Kozjak and Slovenske gorice hill ranges.

Newest Review: ... airport, there are huge shopping warehouses amid chemical plants and factories. Maribor is home to one of two universities in Slovenia, and with the city having a population not much over 100,000, the feel of the town is like the Cambridge of 20 years ago before Microsoft set up big time in East Anglia. By this I mean that the university and its students are essential to giving the town its ... more

... vibrancy and buzz. The pedestrianised centre of the town is bordered by the university at the northern end and the river to the south, and contains the main buildings of historic and tourist interest. We park just outside the cathedral, which is on t...more

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Maribor - Slovenia's European city of culture (1441 words)
by - written on 24/11/07 (Very useful, 113 readings)
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Maribor is the second city in Slovenia, which is the northernmost republic of what used to be Yugoslavia, sharing borders with Italy and Austria in the Alps, and Hungary to the east and Croatia to the South. Slovenia was one of the 10 countries which joined the European Union on 1 May 2004, and on 1 January 2007, became the first of the new countries to adopt the euro as its currency. Maribor is in the north-eastern corner of the country, 135km from the capital, Ljubljana. It boasts a university and is bidding to become European City of Culture in 2012. ==== HISTORY ==== A castle was first documented in Maribor (Marburg in German) in the 12th ... Read the complete review

Maribor - jewel of Stajerska (1808 words)
by - written on 10/07/07 (Very useful, 119 readings)
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For several years now we have been set on the idea of buying a property in Slovenia. However, we didn’t do anything about it quickly enough; procrastination is, it would see, the thief not only of time but your hard earned money too! House prices had risen considerably in the areas we had seen and liked. My partner, ever the pessimist, took this to mean that our dream was effectively over – barring a lottery jackpot win. For a year I nagged and nagged him to consider the eastern part of Slovenia as an option instead and when he found out that Ryanair were to introduce a new service to Maribor, Slovenia’s second city, it looked like I had a ... Read the complete review