The beauty of Slovenia's natural landscape is more than matched by the country's rich and diverse cultural landscape. Almost every municipality is a proprietor of some cultural institutions, usually a library and a museum or gallery, major towns have theatre houses whilst almost all smaller towns have a municipal cultural centre as a venue. Local youth cultural centres vibrant cultural programmes including music events and significant international festivals.
Although some information sources are in Slovene only, visitors find that scanning the listings always turns up a familiar name from the world of music, theatre, visual arts or film. The majority of publicity materials are bilingual (Slovene-English), films are always screened in the original language and never dubbed, whilst at bookstores there are many English language books about Slovene artists, individual fields of art, museums or crafts.
