Postojna Cave and Predjama Castle - Shore Excursion from Piran

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1. Your guide will pick you up at the agreed starting point in Piran. Please contact us after booking to confirm the arrangements.

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2. Postojna Cave, the queen of all caves, is the best-known cave in the world. It is also the greatest tourist attraction in Slovenia and one of the world’s largest karst monuments. This is the only place in the world where the underground landscape can be traversed on an electric train and where you get to meet this underground kingdom’s most famous inhabitant – the proteus (olm) – up close. A fantastic web of tunnels, passages, galleries and halls, astonishing diversity of karst features, as well as easy access are certainly the main reasons for such popularity of the cave and a large number of visitors (more than 36 million of them in over 200 years).

   2 hAdmission included

3. The Predjama Castle reigns over the surrounding area, not far from the Postojna Cave, in the idyllic village of Predjama. This picturesque, magnificent, defiant, mysterious and impregnable castle has been perched up in the middle of a vertical 123-meter high cliff for more than 800 years. Its romantic appeal is further emphasized by the idyllic Lokva River, which disappears into the underground world deep down below the castle. As the only preserved cave castle in Europe, the Predjama Castle offers a unique insight into the building techniques and resourcefulness of people in the Middle Ages, who were looking for and found a safe harbor for themselves right at the entrance into the cave. During a siege that took place in the 15th century, the castle provided a refuge for its best known and most notorious owner - Erazem of Predjama. The legend about the courageous robber baron Erazem, who remained undefeated until one of his servants betrayed him, is still in people’s minds, inspiring and alluring as ever. It was this safe abode of his which helped the brave knight resist the besiegers without much difficulty for more than a year.

   2 hAdmission included

Cancellation

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.

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How it compares in Piran

• Its from-price is 38% below the median of the 22 day trips we list in Piran.
• Its length is typical for the group.
• By number of reviews it ranks 7 of 22.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Piran

Piran is a Venetian-style town on a small peninsula on Slovenia's Adriatic coast, with a seafront square, a hilltop church and salt pans nearby.

Piran occupies the tip of a small peninsula on Slovenia's short Adriatic coast, in Istria. It was ruled by Venice for more than five centuries, and its tight lanes, stone houses and seafront square show a Venetian stamp. Tartini Square, an oval piazza named for the violinist and composer Giuseppe Tartini, who was born in Piran, is the centre.

Top-ranked sights in Piran: Tartini Square (Tartinijev Trg), Church of St. George (Piran Cathedral), Lipica.

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