News and Press Releases
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The Most Magical Festive Season Experience
With its musical and theatrical performances, yesterday’s sneak preview of Postojna Cave’s Christmas Fairy Tale outdid itself. Postojna Cave, Slovenia – the world’s largest underground stage – provided the venue for its 33rd Living Nativity Scenes, once again confirming why they are considered one-of-a-kind and are a serious contender for inclusion on UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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At the Postojna Cave Park, it’s full steam ahead towards sustainable solutions and we have teamed up with Slovenske železnice (SŽ), the Slovenian state railway company, to create a one-of-a-kind experience: to Postojna Cave and Predjama Castle by train!
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Postojna Cave and the olms are still attracting the attention of even the world’s greatest scientists. We were very pleased when a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the British Academy Sir Paul Nurse and his wife decided to visit the cave. They were welcomed in the Postojna Cave Park by the Managing Director, Marjan Batagelj, and the Marketing Director and the head of the most successful cave laboratory, Katja Dolenc Batagelj.
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By joining the international project Predjama Sustainable, the company Postojnska jama d.d. committed itself to doing everything it possibly can to mitigate climate change and reduce the amount of motorised traffic within the municipality. In fact, we have been pursuing these aims for twelve years, ever since we took over the management of the natural monument Postojna Cave, so this is just a way of building on this by means of a clear goal we have set together with the principal project partner, Municipality of Postojna: to reduce motorised traffic between Postojna Cave and Predjama Castle by 5%. A comparison of the results after one year is promising.
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The ski jumping legend, 51-year-old Japanese ski jumper Noriaki Kasai, visited the awe-inspiring Postojna Cave in the company of the Japanese ski jumping team, which is currently training in Planica. It is a well-known fact that Kasai, who holds the record for most individual ski jumping World Cup starts, is love with Slovenia. However, it was his fascination with Postojna Cave that made him decide he would finally bring his wife and 7-year-old daughter Rina to Slovenia in the future. He took home a souvenir for Rina – a baby-dragon-shaped stuffed toy from Postojna Cave.
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Eduardo Strauch is one of the sixteen survivors of the Uruguayan rugby team’s 1972 plane crash in the Andes. Fifty years after the event that shook the whole world and just a few months before the release of a new Netflix film about the ‘miracle of the Andes’, which Strauch is involved in, the man who was unable to talk about this terrible ordeal for more than three decades, visited Postojna Cave and shared this incredible experience with us.
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Following his recent election to the International Ombudsman Institute’s Board of Directors, Mr Peter Svetina, Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia, hosted his first official meeting and a visit from the President of the International Ombudsman Institute, Mr Chris Field. One of Slovenia’s must-see attractions that Mr Field got to see during his visit was Postojna Cave.
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In the Postojna Cave Park, which boasts two Slovenia’s most-visited tourist attractions, Postojna Cave and Predjama Castle, sustainability is more than merely something that’s currently fashionable; it’s the highest ideal that we have been striving for since 2010, when Marjan Batagelj and Katja Dolenc Batagelj took over the management of the company. Following clear guidelines set out at the beginning and environmental protection approaches, which also convinced the European Parliament’s Natura 2000 panel of judges, it is now time to achieve the goals pursued as part of the Predjama Sustainable project.
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THE PROTECT PROTEUS PROJECT, one of the largest sustainability projects in Slovenia, has just been launched. This is a project aimed at ensuring the best possible living environment for the baby olms, also known as the ‘baby dragons’ from Postojna Cave, and raising public awareness about the importance of this protected and little-known animal species. Their reproduction process in nature had never been witnessed before, which made their hatching in the Postojna Cave aquarium all the more interesting. The olms are scientifically known as Proteus anguinus and are endemic to Slovenia and the Dinaric Karst.
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