Predjama Castle

A castle built into the mouth of a cave in a vertical cliff, ten minutes from Postojna Cave.

Predjama is wedged into a cave entrance 123 m up a cliff face, which makes it one of the most dramatically sited castles in Europe. Its fame rests on Erazem Lueger, a robber knight besieged here in the 1480s, who, the story goes, held out by using a secret passage through the cave system behind, and was eventually killed by a cannonball while in the privy. The interior is furnished as a castle museum. The cave behind it can be visited separately in season.

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