🇸🇮 Slovenia Day 5: Maribor & Ptuj

✅Maribor, Slovenia's second-largest city, is renowned as the country's premier wine region. 🌟 The Old Vine ✅In Maribor's Lent district grows the world's oldest grapevine - a living legend over 450 years old. ✅This remarkable plant even has its own museum! 🌝(Its cuttings have spread across five continents and throughout Slovenia.) 🍁Recognized by Guinness World Records as the oldest fruit-bearing vine, it was planted during Turkish invasions in the late Middle Ages. 🌟 Vinag Wine Cellar 🍁Beneath Freedom Square (Trg svobode) lies Vinag, one of Europe's largest and oldest traditional wine cellars. 🎈 This underground kingdom spans 15,000㎡ with 2.1km of tunnels housing hundreds of wine barrels. 🎈 Entry: €10 🎈 Tasting package (3x1dl samples): €15 🌵Most wines available for purchase at €18/bottle - excellent value! 🌟 Maribor Cathedral 🌵This modest cathedral holds the tomb of Anton Martin Slomšek, Slovenia's first saint. 🌵Ptuj - Slovenia's oldest city, founded in 69 BC. 🌀 Its strategic location made it a major Roman settlement and crucial east-west trade route in the 1st century. #SloveniaTravel #CulturalSites #Maribor #Churches