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Predjama Castle
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Two things Slovenia seems to specialise in: castles and caves. The country is dotted
with both, but a castle in a cave? That's something special. Few fortresses have a setting as
grand as this, wedged halfway up a cliff face at the foot of a valley (
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. The loca-
tion has a story behind it that's equally dramatic: Slovenia's 'Robin Hood', Erazem Lueger,
apparently taunted besieging troops here by hurling fresh cherries at them that he collected
via a secret passage. He came to a swift and rather embarrassing end.
