COSMOPOLITAN "MEDIEVAL" BLED WALKING TOUR

We meet and start at Bled Trade - Commercial centre (parking lot - physical address - Ljubljanska 7) called Gadaffi where you will learned what this mediterranean piece of architecture is doing in the middle of alpine resort. We proceed on foot towards the oldest and the most eminent of Bled hotels - Grand Hotel Toplice, which ever since his foundation became the gathering point of the high society of the time. Beneath the hotel we enjoy the majestic view over the Bled Lake scenery, Triglav National Park, Julian Alps and Karavanke mountain range along with detailed description of the sights. Next stop is part of the lake beneath Casino where the history of the Medieval Castle and the Middle Ages comes along with its background. We walk on for aprox. 200 and our next stop is port of traditional bled boats called Pletna and there comes a time for major Bled myths and legends, Turkish incursions, and first bled tourists - medieval pilgrims. Couple of steps further on we make a stop in the SPA park and there we learn how beginnings of more cosmopolitan tourism coincide with arrival of Swiss hydropath Arnold Rikli to Bled. 100 m further on we meet the monument dedicated to the greatest Slovene poet France Preseren - the location is not coincidence. Then we ascend to the St. Martin Church - and here comes the real time party, First World War, Karadjordjevic royal family, Heinrich Himmler and Partisan resistance movement during the Second World War, and of course the cream of it, when Yugoslav communist president Tito held his diplomatic residence here, manipulating both East and West to its own benefit, forging the worlds third bloc (as alternative to Communist East and Free World) and therefore hosting here his allies from socialist and non-aligned states. The final part is the best part.