- Nowadays the castle of Ptuj hosts the most visited and representative collections of the Regional Museum Ptuj-Ormož: weapons, musical instruments...
- Ptuj is a member of the Slovene Association of Historic Towns and it has 14 active cultural associations, which co-organize traditional annual events.
- Where is Ptuj? Ptuj is a medieval city of 18,000 souls in the Podravje (aka Drava) region in Slovenia. Ptuj is pronounced as Ptue in English.
- The city centre, which is rich in culture and art, is bubbling with life, just as the Ptuj thermal water, which you can enjoy in Terme Ptuj, is boiling and bubbling today.
- The castle we see today dates to the 11th century, when the Archbishops of Salzburg built over the existing structures and then leased it out to Ptuj’s feudal lords.
- Visit Ptuj, Ptuj. 11,921 likes · 227 talking about this. Ptuj je ikona turističnih destinacij Slovenije in najstarejše mesto. Ptuj is an iconic tourist...
- Ptuj is the oldest city in Slovenia; with evidence of settlement since the Stone Age. The name originates from the time of Emporer Trajan and was once an...
- Forty thousand people lived in the Ptuj area in this period, a number never since reached. It was later burned by the Huns and occupied by the Avars and the Slavs.
- The first written mention of Ptuj dates from the same year. The city of Petovion1 was the base camp of the Legio XIII Gemina in Pannonia.