This year, Ljubljana is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Bee Path. They designed it as one of the activities as part of the celebration of Ljubljana, the European Green Capital 2016, and over the past decade, it has grown from a tourist route into a real bee network. Ljubljana will mark the tenth anniversary with a varied program that will run until October.
Initially, Ljubljana established a tourist route that connected content on the topic of cultural and natural heritage related to bees in the city. The route soon outgrew these frameworks and became what it is today – a network that connects 46 different stakeholders, from beekeepers, business organisations and cultural institutions to interested individuals. The Bee Path also became an incubator for new development ideas related to beekeeping, biodiversity and food supply in the area of the City of Ljubljana. It also developed into the Bee in the City program, which combines various content from the Swarm Shelter, late mowing, wild pollinator monitoring, API kindergarten …
During this time, Ljubljana has also taken the Bee Path into the international environment. Between 2018 and 2022, the city participated in the URBAC III – Transfer Networks program, where they transferred the Bee Path to as many as 9 European cities as part of the BeePathNet and BeePathNet-Reloaded projects.
The Slovenian Beekeepers’ Association has declared Ljubljana the most bee-friendly municipality three times for the city’s bee-related activities. Ljubljana received the title in 2017, 2019 and 2022.
Learn more about the Bee Path here.
