VISIT OF ERDF-FUNDED PROJECTS
24 January 2016
11:30
Bus pick up at Ljubljana centre (exact location TBC)
12:00
Bus pick up at the Ljubljana Airport
12:30
Bus pick up at Brdo Hotel
13:30 –
16:30
17:00 –
18:30
19:00
Site visit to Planica Nordic Centre
(lunch included)
Site visit to the Slovenian Alpine Museum
Bus return to Brdo Hotel
Planica Nordic Centre
Planica Nordic Centre is a Nordic skiing complex with one ski flying hill, seven ski jumping hills and crosscountry skiing track (above and underground track). This is the only Nordic center in the world with record
eight hills that are all in one place and the only one of this kind with hills of all sizes at one place: small,
medium, normal, large and flying hills.
You will be offered to participate to the zip line experience, a tourist attraction from top to bottom of the
flying hill.
Investment in the Planica Nordic Centre pursues the following targets:
 reactivate existing sports grounds,
 ensure that activities take place all year long,
 create jobs,
 preserve the tradition of ski jumping and ski flying events in Planica,
 create conditions that allow sports and tourism-related offer of tourism destinations of Kranjska
Gora, the Gornjesavska Dolina Valley and Slovenia to bloom, and renew cultural and technical
heritage.
Construction of the ski jumping and ski flying centre will impact on:
 the renovation, reconstruction and preservation of the existing sports grounds and infrastructures,
delivering a modern, state-of-the-art central facility in Planica,
 the organisation of top level, elite competitions,
 job creation,
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the increase in the number of overnight stays in Kranjska Gora and its neighbourhoods (athletes
coming for trainings and competitions, recreational athletes, visitors), the number of day guests
(visitors – tourists, recreational athletes, competition visitors),
increasing the amount spent on catering services and products (e.g. products featuring the Planica
trademark etc.) in Kranjska Gora and its neighbourhoods,
the visibility of Kranjska Gora, its immediate surroundings and neighbourhoods, and, last but not
least, on visibility of Slovenia as a tourist destination.
The total investment for the Planica Nordic Centre is EUR 47.4 million with a contribution of EUR 33.7
million from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
Slovenian Alpine Museum
The Slovenian Alpine Museum presents the past and present activities of Slovenes in the field of
mountaineering. It educates the younger generations in the spirit of mountaineering and respect
of nature. Its mission can thus be encapsulated in the slogan: "Rope team for the summits of
future".
Mountaineering is not only one of the most frequent sports and recreational activities in Slovenia but it is
also part of Slovenian national identity. Throughout centuries the organisations active in this area have
established and developed numerous activities, which met the level of other Alpine nations, such as
construction of alpine cottages, mountain rescue, top-level mountain climbing, educating young people,
protecting mountain nature, issuing maps and a number of manuals for safe mountaineering. The so-called
mountain culture takes a very important place with regard to mountaineering: in addition to issuing the
oldest Slovenian magazine “Planinski vestnik” a number of fiction and professional books have also been
published as well as films and other materials. All these activities are presented in the framework of the
permanent exhibition in the newly-built Slovenian Alpine Museum with occasional thematic exhibitions
which further outline the major past and present events in the field of mountaineering. By visiting the
exhibitions and seeing the introductory film, which presents to you will have the opportunity to interact
and gain knowledge on topics presented by the Museum. The Slovenian Alpine Museum contributes
significantly to the visit to Mojstrana as a less-developed tourist destination located in the municipality
Kranjska Gora.
The total investment for the Slovene Alpine Meuseum is EUR 2.9 million with a contribution of EUR 1.5
million from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).