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ent periods (eg baroque, neoclassical, Biedemeier, Secessionist), but its main attraction is
the quite astonishing
Celje Ceiling
(Celjski Strop), an enormous trompe l'oeil painting in
the main hall, of columns, towers, angels frolicking skyward, noblemen and ladies look-
ing down at you looking up. Completed in about 1600 by a Polish artist, the mural was
meant to lift the ceiling up to the sky, and it does just that. Other panels represent the four
seasons and show scenes from Roman and Greek mythology.
The impressive
Knežji dvorec
annexe in the 14th-century Lower Castle on Trg Celjs-
kih Knezov offers an archaeological history of Celje in one building: its cellars house a
complete 3rd-century Roman road brilliantly displayed with excavated statuary and fres-
coes and parts of the old city walls. On top of these are traces of the medieval buildings up
to parts of air-raid shelters built to withstand the bombs of WWII.
Krekov Trg
Opposite the train station is the mammoth neo-Gothic
Celje Hall
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(Celjski Dom; Krekov trg 3)
, built in 1907 and once the centre of social life for German-
speaking Celjani. It now contains the year-round TIC (
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) and, in the lower
Mladih; 041 615 273; admission free; 10am-6pm Tue-Sat)
, devoted to art pro-
duced by those under the age of 20 and the only such museum in all of Slovenia. To the
south and connected to the Hotel Evropa is the 16th-century
Defence Tower
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(Vodni Stolp; Razlagova ulica 19)
, part of the city wall and ramparts, built
between 1451 and 1473.
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Josip Pelikan Photo Studio
(Fotografski Atelje Josipa Pelikana; 548 58 91;
www.muzej-nz-ce.si
; Razlagova ulica
5; 10am-2pm Tue-Fri, 9am-1pm Sat, 2-6pm Sun)
Looking like an oversized green-
house (to let in the light), the Josip Pelikan Photo Studio is the complete studio of an
early-20th-century Celje photographer and part of the Museum of Recent History.
MUSEUM
Slomškov Trg & Glavni Trg
dating from the early 14th century, has some magnificent frescoes and tombstones, but its
greatest treasure is a carved wooden
pietà
dating from 1415. The chapel has carved stone
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