US luxury and lifestyle travel web portal Conde Nast Traveler has picked Slovenia as the top holiday destination for 2021.
Tucked between old favourites Italy and Croatia, Slovenia offers Michelin-starred food, excellent wine, turquoise rivers, glacier-fed lakes and soaring, snow-capped peaks, it says on its web site.
The country’s most famous landmark, Lake Bled, is described as being “more peaceful than any of Europe’s better-known lakes”. “For now, at least, it remains blissfully unbusy; a place of wide-open spaces, splendid solace and restoratively pristine air.”
Conde Nast Traveler further highlights the country’s cuisine and wine, and the Michelin-starred restaurants – Hiša Franko led by chef Ana Roš and the Strelec restaurant at Ljubljana Castle.
Slovenia is followed on the list of best places to visit in 2021 by England’s Yorkshire, Portugal’s Melides, the United Arab Emirates and Canary Islands.