I can't believe its been already 5 years since I had been in Slovenia. In 2008, I have lived in Ljubljana (capital of Slovenia) for 5 months thanks to Erasmus Exchange Program. Those 5 months was truly amazing. I drew this painting below last November from a postcard of Ljubljana. I used both watercolor and colored pens. Ljubljana is a very beautiful city and I have really awesome memories about this city. I have met wonderful people, travelled a lot, and obviously partied a lot. And I studied a little bit :)) Ljubljana is like a city from the fairy tales with it's lovely Ljubljanica river running through the middle of the town, the Triple bridge, the Dragon bridge, and the Ljubljana castle on top of the Castle hill. The city itself is made of many old buildings with Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architectural elements which I really like!
The symbol of the city is the Ljubljana Dragon. It is depicted on the top of the tower of the Ljubljana Castle in the Ljubljana coat-of-arms and on the Ljubljanica-crossing Dragon Bridge. It symbolises power, courage, and greatness. There is a legend about this Dragon bridge. The legend is that Jason was the founder of Ljubljana, and he and his Argonauts killed a dragon. This is one of the four dragon statues on the bridge. According to local legends, when a virgin crosses the bridge, the dragons will wag their tails. Some local people have nicknamed this structure "mother-in-law" because of its fiery nature.
Na Zdravje!! :)
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