So-called catacombs were ordered and the building itself was managed by a German officer named Sitler (he was as far as my info goes, the chief of the railway station). Probably he got his way because of similarity to Hitler's surname... Anyway, he wanted to build a shelter for the workers of the railway station so they hired local constructor workers and they worked on the tunnels all to the capitulation of Germany. After the war works continued but it can be seen where German work has ended and more sloppy work was done after the war. These tunnels were closed and forgotten for a long time, somebody once even wanted to grow mushrooms inside, so only recently have they been re-opened for public. Sadly, much about this place is forgotten. I know a few bits about it because my grandfather was one of the workers...
Read moreBIG JOKE ! Visitor center says "Guided tour"; it's more a reading tour or I will say just a walking tour in tunnels... If you don't speak slovenian, don't come!
The tour lasted 1hour and was useless ! The guide just spoke slovenian with the 4 slovenian people that were in the group. The other 9 people just followed as the guide didn't speak english and couldn't care less about us...
We never even saw the famous tunnel that splits into 2 !
And of course, the visitor center was closed when we came back!
Anyway waste of...
Read moreThey said the tour was in English... but it wasn't. This was especially annoying as we asked twice when we bought the tickets if the tour was in English.
The 20 or so international tourists who, unsurpringsly, never got the chance to learn Slovenian at school, were left to trundle through a dark tunnel, which, without the accompanying information, was simply that: a dark tunnel.
Conveniently for their office, they close 5 minutes before the tour finishes, so any complaints find their way into...
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