{"id":7829,"date":"2018-01-16T11:02:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T11:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/?p=7829"},"modified":"2018-01-16T13:35:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T13:35:48","slug":"maribor-european-city-sport-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/maribor-european-city-sport-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Maribor is the European City of Sport 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Maribor will be one of the European cities which in 2018 will hold the title of European City of Sport, conferred by ACES Europe, a Brussels-based non-profit association, which every year assigns the European Capitals, Cities and Towns of Sport.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Maribor, the city beneath the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2k0GHF9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pohorje ski slopes<\/a> <\/strong>and the city of the best Slovenian football team, sport has always been a leading force which connects residents, improves quality of life and contributes to the psycho-physical well-being of the community. These are all decisive factors for winning the title of European City of Sport. Maribor was thus honoured at a ceremony in Brussels in December, where it promoted green, active and healthy Slovenia in cooperation with the Slovenian Tourist Board. The city hopes to both promote itself as a sports destination, and encourage the local residents to do more sports. Maribor will host several sports events this year, including the FIMBA <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maxibasketballmaribor2018.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">European Maxibasketball Championship<\/a><\/strong>, the AETF Senior and Junior European Taekwon-Do Championships, and the Ice Hockey Women&#8217;s World Championship Division II.<\/p>\n<p>The beginning of the sports year will be marked by a special event on January 24th, organised by the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympic.org\/slovenia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Slovenian Olympic Commitee<\/a><\/strong>. The Slovenian Olympic flame, inspired by the original Olympic flame, will be brought to Maribor\u00b4s main square, which got its name from one of the most successful sportsmen in the <strong>Olympic history of Slovenia<\/strong>, Leon \u0160tukelj. The second largest city of Slovenia is also proud of its natural and cultural heritage. Maribor participates in a<strong> trans-national project called Awakening<\/strong> (Slovenia-Croatia 2014-2020) which is setting the frame for the development of innovative tourism products, based on the interpretation of archeological parks in the municipalities of \u0160entilj and Gori\u010dane.<\/p>\n<p><em>STB, photo: A. Sedov\u0161ek, STB<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maribor will be one of the European cities which in 2018 will hold the title of European City of Sport, conferred by ACES Europe, a Brussels-based non-profit association, which every year assigns the European Capitals, Cities and Towns of Sport. In Maribor, the city beneath the Pohorje ski slopes and the city of the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bureau-news"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}