Maribor

The traditional Lent Festival, Maribor's main summer event series, is starting on 23 June, bringing concerts of popular music, classical music and jazz, as well as stand-up performances and folk dance events until 1 July.

The summer season in Ljubljana will feature around 70 concerts by performers from 24 countries as part of two summer festivals running from 15 June to 22 September, the 35th Imago Sloveniae festival of classical music and the Nights in Old Ljubljana Town.

Imago Sloveniae opens with a concert of the Symphony Orchestra of the SNG Maribor theatre in Congress Square.

With less than two months to go until the opening of the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) in Maribor, the Flame of Peace has arrived in Slovenia's second city marking the symbolic start of the biggest sporting event the city has ever seen.

The first Slovenian police bees flew out to gather nectar and pollen in the Maribor City Park after the rooftop of the city's police headquarters provided a new home to four bee colonies.

A small ceremony, featuring a police brass band, was held on 11 April to inaugurate the beehive on top of the police building adjacent to the City Park.

Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob paid an unannounced visit to Ukraine on 31 March, his first to the war-torn country. Talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal focused on Slovenia's potential participation in the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine and the country's progress towards EU and NATO membership.

Filip Flisar, the Slovenian 2015 world ski cross champion, has often described his strong legs as his biggest asset, lovingly calling them Pohorje hams. Now that his sporting career is over, he has ventured into business to sell real ham from the Pohorje hills.

Flisar launched his new brand, called Pohorska Šunka or Pohorje Ham, at a wine shop in Maribor on 26 March.

Maribor – Lumar, a Maribor-based maker of prefabricated energy-efficient homes, generated a record EUR 19.2 million in revenue in 2021 and finsihed the year with a net profit of EUR 1.2 million, just under the 2020 figure.

Maribor – A 20-year-old woman is fighting for her life in hospital after a brutal attack by a 22-year-old man in the Maribor Park on Saturday night left her with life threatening injuries to her head and torso.

Maribor police said the suspect had attacked the victim with “a sharp object” over an apparent disagreement.

Maribor – The Maribor Synagogue will hold open day on Sunday to kick start a series of events celebrating the annual European Days of Jewish Culture in Slovenia. This year the events focus on the theme of renewal.

Maribor – Mohammad Dawood Rezai left his home in Afghanistan at the age of 14. He could have hardly imagined then that almost seven years on his goal would be to appear in the Olympic boxing tournament for Slovenia, the country he had not heard of before arriving here in February 2016.