User recommends the product
Advantages Some fine and interesting sights, sporting pursuits, great people
Disadvantages No true centre, lack of places to eat, a lot of concrete
Depending on where you get your information from, the city of Velenje is either Slovenia's fourth or fifth largest. In a country with only around two million inhabitants the accuracy hardly seems worrying about and, besides, it was a different factoid that persuaded me that I must visit Velenje at the earliest possible opportunity. Last year a Slovene friend told me that Velenje has a statue of Josip Brosz Tito (the late, some say great, leader of Yugoslavia from the end of the Second World War until the early 1980s), a statue that is, in fact, the largest statue of Tito in Slovenia (or did ...
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