When you’re looking up from Ljubljana’s squares, the castle seems dauntingly high.
If you’ve got the mettle you can try to get up there on foot, but there’s also a tourist train and a funicular railway.
The castle has changed a lot since it first came together 900 years ago.
The early stone wood and stone fortress was succeeded by more practical military buildings, becoming an Arsenal in the 16th century as a regional bulwark against an Ottoman invasion.
