Ljubljana Puppet Theatre
The Ljubljana Puppet Theatre (Slovenian:Lutkovno gledališče Ljubljana) was founded in 1948, originally as the City Puppet Theatre, and remains the premier Slovenian theatre for puppetry. It is located in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an .... It had its opening premiere on October 10 as part of the Ljubljana Festival. The first art director was Jože Pengov, Slovenian director, playwright, actor, writer, translator, publicist and founder of the modern craft of Slovenian puppet theater. Today, the Theatre hosts and participates in numerous European and Slovenian festivals. The theatre stages puppetry shows but also live action dramas, musicals, and other performance entertainments. The theatre has four stages accommodating betw ...
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Town House, Ljubljana (14078926484)
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, mor ...
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