Dragon Bridge
Local Life Ljubljana is about to select candidates for Best Places awards, dedicated to rewarding and encouraging excellence in products, service and ideas. You are helping us to make the best choice.
Dragon Bridge has 0 votes. Click here to see the results.
You can vote once a day for your favourite place.
Editor's review
Guarding the four corners of Ljubljana's Zmajski Most (Dragon Bridge), these art nouveau sentries are the symbols of Ljubljana. Built in 1900 to replace a wooden 1819 bridge, the Dragon Bridge was one of the first reinforced concrete bridges in Europe, and is today one of the city's most representative examples of Art Nouveau architecture thanks to Dalmatian artist Jurij Zaninovic. A student of Otto Wagner, it was Zaninovic who designed the decorative balustrades, original lamps and copper-sheet dragons. Winged lions were originally considered, but given local legend - which claims Jason (the Argonaut) founded the city when he vanquished a dragon on the site - dragons it was and ever shall be. [The End.]
Editor
Editor & Ljubljana Local
Reviews
Add a widget for Dragon Bridge to your website and get more reviews!
