What to see

Celje’s first public monument, the Saint Mary’s column, was erected in 1776 on the spot where the murderer Pretner was executed.  The tall high column on a triangular plinth supports th...

The bronze sculpture of a raftsman was cast by the sculptor Boris Kalin of Ljubljana to commemorate the completion of the flood control works on the Savinja River in 1961. The sculpture reminds of ...

Alma M. Karlin, writer, globetrotter, collector, theosophist, polyglot, was born in 1889. After World War I, she travelled a good part of the world on her own, which certainly makes her one of the ...

The stone water well with a diameter of approximately 1.4 metres was discovered in 2013 during the restoration works in the old city centre. It was originally built in the Middle Ages, made of Roma...

Construction of town walls was started in 1450 and finished in 1473. The walled-in area had a convex quadrilateral shape. Robust bastions were built on the corners, while the city was protected by ...

The mansion is named after the lord Anton pl. Prothasi who had it build around 1770. It is the only fully preserved baroque building in town. Today, it is home to offices of judicial authorities an...

The Celje Central Library has perhaps one of the most beautiful locations in town – on the banks of the Savinja River. After decades of operation at a number of scattered locations, the new buildin...

This neo-renaissance palace, modelled after the Heinrichshof of Vienna, was built in 1887. The design is the work of the architect Hans Fraueneder. The ornate façade is adorned by triangular gables...

The chapel core is approximately as old as the St. Maximilian Church. Today, it includes a stone altar from the 17th century. Under the chapel, there is a well which, according to an old legend, sp...