This is my city!

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Bled is one of the most beautiful places in the world. I believe all of you who have ever visited it can agree with me at this point. It's a small town in a northern part of Slovenia which "sits" under the Alps and the highest mountain of Slovenia called Triglav (three heads).

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The anwser is: Old Castle... for one thing!

Celje is boasting with rich cultural heritage. Proof for this is also a castle on the hill overlooking the whole city.

The city was razed by Slavic tribes during the Migration period of the 5th and 6th century, but was rebuilt in the Early Middle Ages. The first mention of Celje in the Middle Ages was under the name of Cylie in Admont's Chronicle, which was written between 1122 and 1137.

The town was the seat of the Counts of Celje from 1341 to 1456 It acquired market-town status in the first half of the 14th century and town privileges from Count Frederick II on April 11, 1451.

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The first urban settlement in the area of Celje appeared during the Hallstatt era. The settlement was known in the Celtic times as Kelea; Celts coined money in the region.

Once the area was incorporated in the Roman Empire, it was known as Civitas Celeia. It received municipal rights in AD 46 under the name municipium Claudia Celeia during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius (41-54). Written records suggest that the town was rich and densely populated, secured with the walls and towers, full of multi-storied marble palaces, wide squares, and streets.

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Celje is know for it's handball team (Pivovarna Laško) which is a national champion and also boasts European victories and success.

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Slovenj Gradec is a town and a municipality formerly in the Slovene Styria region, now in the recently enlarged Koroška statistical region of northern Slovenia. The town is located around 45 km west of Maribor and 65 km northeast of Ljubljana.

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Hawaii is a special place as we all already know that. I went to the island of Maui not too long ago. Flying out of Munich to London, then out to San Francisco, Honolulu and finaly Kahului on Maui.

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This is a video of Celje, Slovenia. Celje is the 3rd largest city in Slovenia.

Exhibiting the typical characteristics of a Central European city, it is the regional center of Lower Styria and the administrative seat of the municipality of the same name - the Urban Municipality of Celje Mestna obèina Celje). Celje is located under Upper Celje Castle (407 m) at the confluence of the Savinja (German: Sann), Ložnica, and Voglajna (with its tributary Hudinja) rivers in the lowest part of the Savinja Valley. It is 241 m above mean sea level (MSL).

Maribor (historical German name: Marburg an der Drau) is the second largest city in Slovenia. The population of Maribor is approximately 133,000. Maribor lies on the river Drava at the meeting point of the Pohorje mountain, the Drava Valley, the Drava Plain, and the Kozjak and Slovenske gorice hill ranges.

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