Industrial and derelict locations to film in Slovenia
9 of them, 6 with a photo. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Factories, warehouses, power stations, mines, depots and abandoned buildings: raw space, hard surfaces and the kind of decay that is impossible to build.
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Anthony's Shaft, Idrija Mercury Mine
Industrial & derelict
Mine entrance in use since 1500 at Idrija, with a stone gatehouse, timbered galleries, water channels and hand cut drifts on a guided underground route.
Cukrarna
Industrial & derelict
Nineteenth century sugar refinery on the Ljubljanica rebuilt as a gallery, keeping the long brick shell around a tall open hall crossed by steel walkways and bridges.
Sostanj Thermal Power Plant
Industrial & derelict
Working lignite power station in the Salek valley with cooling towers, a chimney of 350 metres, coal handling yards and large boiler and turbine halls.
Stara Sava Ironworks Quarter, Jesenice
Industrial & derelict
Preserved ironworking quarter at Jesenice with a blast furnace chimney, the Kasarna workers block, a forge and the Ruard manor that houses the Upper Sava Valley Museum.
Steklarna Hrastnik Glassworks
Industrial & derelict
Glass factory working in the Zasavje coal valley since 1860, with furnace halls, hot end production lines, moulding shops and a works site pressed against wooded slopes.
Underground of Peca, Mezica Mine
Industrial & derelict
Disused lead and zinc mine inside Mount Peca with kilometres of rail served tunnels, ore chambers and flooded sections reached by mine train, bicycle or kayak.
Center Rog
Industrial & derelict
Former Rog bicycle factory beside Trubarjeva cesta, reopened in 2024 as a public production centre that keeps the concrete frame and adds workshops, studios and a yard.
Coal Mining Museum of Slovenia
Industrial & derelict
Former Skale pit at Velenje with a headframe, miners changing rooms, a cage descent to 160 metres and long galleries fitted with cutting machines and an underground railway.
Sitarjevec Mine, Litija
Industrial & derelict
Former lead, zinc and barite mine above Litija, with a narrow main adit, timbered side galleries and coloured limonite formations growing on the tunnel walls.
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