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Chocolate shapes
For all Slovenian patriots and for all those who wish to give to someone a real Slovenian chocolate souvenir we have made special chocolate figurines:
- figurine of France Prešeren,
- proteus
- Ljubljana’s dragon.
FIGURINE OF FRANCE PREŠEREN
The greatest Slovenian poet dr. France Prešeren was born on the 3rd of December 1800 in Vrba on Gorenjsko. In 1833 he met Julia Primic, a young lady which for many years becomes the poet’s ungranted muse. The fruit of this love is the Sonetni venec. The most famous poems of Prešeren are the Krst pri Savici (1836) and Zdravlica (1844) which is the official Slovenian anthem. He died on 8th of February 1849 which is a Slovenian cultural holiday.
FIGURINE OF PROTEUS (HUMAN FISH)
Human fish or Proteus Anguinus (latin) is 30 cm long proteus that has adopted to living in darkness. It can be found in the most famous Slovenian karstic cave, the Postojnska jama. It is blind and free of protective pigment so that its skin is similar to the colour of white human race which is the reason for its name. When animals are exposed to light they slowly go dark, just like a human on a sun, since in a small section of the Slovenian Karst, they have found a completely black human fish and with developed eyes. The reason for going dark are the regular visits to the surface for food. In the past, they considered the human fish as the dragon’s cub that came from the underworld. Now, it the most famous Slovenian attraction for over 200 years.
FIGURINE OF LJUBLJANA’S DRAGON
Legend of the Ljubljana’s dragon: Once upon a time, the Greek hero JASON, with his friends Argonouts from the ship from the Colchis' king the golden fleece - skin from the golden ramomh The ship ARGO ran away from the pursuers and went astray to the month of the river Donava as suppose to going south across Aegean sea. There was no going back due to the pursuers and they continued their journey up stream the river Donava, Sava and finally up to the river Ljubljanica. At the spring of the river Ljubljanica they stopped, disassembled the ship into pieces and loaded them across the shoulders, carried the river to the coast of the Adriatic sea where they assembled it again and continued their journey home. In the region of the present Vrhnika and Ljubljana, the Argonouts found a large lake and a swamp by it. Somewhere here, their chief Jason found a terrible swamp monster which he fought and killed. This was supposed to be the Ljubljana’s dragon which now lives on the top of the castle’s tower on Ljubljana’s city hill.
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