ABOUT PTICH

Powered by Urbana Vrana Institute, PTICH is a Ljubljana-based project dedicated to feminist, socialist, environmental, literary, graffiti, and music walking and bike tours. It approaches the city as a cultural, political, and sonic space shaped by history, ideology, and everyday practices rather than as a neutral tourist destination.

Creating memorable alternative tours, PTICH is a cross between public outdoor lectures, engaging flaneurship, and scholarly cultural tourism. It is run by community-conscious locals grounded in academic research and everyday life experience.

While acknowledging Slovenia’s Roman, Medieval, Habsburg, and Socialist history, PTICH tours also focus on the country’s contemporary social and cultural characteristics. These include diverse music scenes, subcultural and activist communities, urban lifestyles, feminism, women’s fiction, graffiti and street art, urban gardening, urban beekeeping, and related practices.

PTICH aims to play an active role in local life by studying the social dynamics of communities through in-depth research and promoting their creativity through boutique city walks and bicycle tours. In short, PTICH offers unique educational outdoor public lectures that present the results of the Urbana Vrana Institute’s ongoing research, rather than conventional guided tourist tours.

PTICH tours in Ljubljana are consistently highly rated by participants. See our Reviews page.

Get a sense of our walking and bike tours through images from Ljubljana’s streets and neighbourhoods. Visit our Gallery page.

PTICH guides come from Ljubljana’s local cultural and activist scenes. Their work combines historical and art-based knowledge with contemporary sociology, social pedagogy, feminist theory, and cultural studies. This approach allows them to offer grounded, critical interpretations of both historical and contemporary Ljubljana, attentive to social context, power relations, and everyday urban life.