Hotel Orel is located in the old town centre and has a long tradition. It is just a few ... more
minutes walk from the casino and theatre. It is in the immediate vicinity of the business and shopping centre as well the historical and cultural sights of Maribor....
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Location. The Hotel Orel is located in Maribor, Slovenia, within 50 metres of the 16th ... more
century city castle and 100 metres from the 12th century cathedral. Maribor Airport is 10 kilometres south of the city, while the main train station is 200 metres ...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Location. The Hotel Orel is located in Maribor, Slovenia, within 50 metres of the 16th ... more
century city castle and 100 metres from the 12th century cathedral. Maribor Airport is 10 kilometres south of the city, while the main train station is 200 metres ...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Advantages: Compact, pretty, lots to do Disadvantages: I can't be there all the time
restaurants too.
Café-bars can be found on every corner, each completely different from the last with their own quirky décor; my favourite is one we call the ?hospital bar?, situated almost inside the grounds of the hospital and which has displays of antique medical instruments on the wall.
Accommodation
Ski chalets, hostels, private rooms, hotels ? Maribor has plenty of accommodation to suit all pockets. Even if you are not in the centre, the bus services are excellent and cheap.
Outside the town in the foothills of Pohorje there are several spa hotels that offer sumptuous accommodation although day guests can also enjoy treatments too.
The People
The people of Maribor are warm and friendly and take a much greater interest in visitors than the people in Ljubljana. However, English is less widely spoken here and some German is ...
Advantages: The house stands in beautiful grounds, entrance is cheap Disadvantages: Exhibtion is of limited interest
Betnava Dvorec is a Baroque mansion situated to the south of Maribor, near the small village of Razvanje. I am ashamed to say that it took us over a year to learn of its existence even though our flat is only ten minutes walk from it. We recently took my parents there, mainly to see the beautiful grounds, but while we were there we learned that there is a museum inside the house and decided to go inside.
The candy pink house is now only three quarters of its former self. The back section no longer exists and over the last few years, there have been archaeological excavations of the area this stood on. Photographs and drawings inside the house show what it once looked like, four identical wings around a courtyard. We first discovered the mansion while out walking and went to get a closer look. It was a Saturday afternoon ...
Advantages: Student vibe, great scenery and winter sports, nice cafe culture Disadvantages: A bit quiet outside term time
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 century, and was given town privileges in 1254. it prospered under the Hapsburgs in the centuries which followed, and withstood sieges from the Ottomans in 1532 and 1683. Until World War ...
