Cobblers' Bridge

This graceful pedestrian bridge over the Ljubljanica takes its name from the shoemakers who once kept workshops on a crossing at this spot. Reimagined by the architect Jože Plečnik in the early twentieth century, it is lined with stone balustrades and pairs of columns bearing lamps, framing views of the old town and castle hill. Wide and open rather than lined with buildings, it functions almost as a small elongated square above the water. Together with his other river works, it forms part of Plečnik's celebrated vision for the city.