Dragons on the River

Ljubljana is famously quaint, neat, pretty, and calm. Besides the odd emu that tends to stroll in the old town, for unknown reasons, there is little in the way of wild-life, never mind dangerous wildlife.

Ljubljana je znamenita, urejena, lepa in umirjena. Poleg nenavadnega emuja, ki se iz neznanih razlogov rad sprehaja po starem mestnem jedru, je malo divjih živali, sploh nevarnih divjih živali.

So what is the deal with the ferocious four dragons on the eponymously named Dragon's Bridge? This town's symbol is, indeed, the dragon, and the tale is one told over millennia. Of course, as we now know, the dragon of Ljubljana was slain by Jason and the Argonauts who travelled here from Greece, and then continued to the coast to sail back. 

Kaj je torej s hudimi štirimi zmaji na istoimenskem Zmajskem mostu? Simbol tega mesta je res zmaj, zgodba pa se pripoveduje že tisočletja. Seveda, kot zdaj vemo, so ljubljanskega zmaja ubili Jazon in Argonavti, ki so sem pripotovali iz Grčije, nato pa nadaljevali do obale, da bi odpluli nazaj.

To add some contemporary information, the bridge was the first reinforced concrete bridge in this part of Europe, designed by a Dalmatian that was a pupil of Otto Wagner in Vienna, who also happened to be the teacher of Plečnik. It was to commemorate Kaiser Franz Ferdinand, and was to be adorned by four lions. The date was 1900, falling precisely into what must have been a building craze in Ljubljana, post-1895 earthquake. 

Če dodam nekaj sodobnih podatkov, je bil most prvi železobetonski most v tem delu Evrope, ki ga je zasnoval Dalmatinec, učenec Otta Wagnerja na Dunaju, ki je bil tudi Plečnikov učitelj. Namenjena je bila spominu na cesarja Franca Ferdinanda, krasili pa naj bi jo štirje levi. Datum je bil 1900 in je padel ravno v tisto, kar je morala biti gradbena norija v Ljubljani, po potresu leta 1895.

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