Malca

Top choice in Maribor


This lunchtime bistro serves some of the freshest dishes based on seasonal ingredients in Maribor. The daily changing menu takes inspiration from across Europe (paella and moussaka were both chalked up on the board the last time we were here) as well as including Slovenian favourites like nettle soup and žlikrofi (ravioli of potato, bacon and chives).


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1. Maribor Regional Museum

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2. National Liberation Museum

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3. Maribor Cathedral

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Maribor's cathedral faces the square named after Anton Martin Slomšek (1800–62), the Slovenian bishop and politician beatified in 1999 and the first…

4. Town Hall

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Behind the plague pillar in Glavni trg is the Town Hall, built in 1565 by Venetian craftsmen living in Styria.

5. Glavni Trg

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Maribor’s marketplace in the Middle Ages, Glavni trg is just north of the river and the main bridge crossing it. In the centre of the square is Slovenia’s…

6. Plague Pillar

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In the centre of Glavni trg, Maribor's marketplace in the Middle Ages, is perhaps the most extravagant Plague Pillar found anywhere in Central Europe…

7. Synagogue

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Just north of the pentagonal 16th-century Water Tower on the waterfront, a set of steps leads up to Židovska ulica (Jewish St), the centre of the Jewish…

8. Water Tower

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About 300m east of the main bridge is the pentagonal Water Tower, a 16th-century defence tower. Just north of it is a set of steps leading to Židovska…