We have no snow this year, so Santa Claus came to Lipica by foot. Luckily, a Lipizzaner-driven carriage was ready for him in front of the Hotel Maestoso, so he invited the children to join the winter carriage rides! We also invited the children to join our Christmas workshops!

Christmas time is here. Saint Nicholas visited Lipica today and invited the children to join the carriage rides. Look at our photo gallery!

Selected stallions and riders of the Lipica Classical Riding School will be the special guests of this years’s Christmas ball of the Djakovo State Stud Farm on December 20th.

A limestone sculpture of a Lipizzaner welcomes the visitors on their way to Lipica in the roundabout of the nearby town of Sežana. The sculpture was created by Franci Černelč at the occasion of the Forma viva Malole 2014.

We would like to inform our dear visitors that during the week from 26 to 31 October 2014, guided tours of the Lipica Stud Farm, carriage-rides and pony riding will be carried out following a revised schedule.

Lipica Stud Farm dislocated unit Ravne, where young Lipizzaner stallions are bred, hosted a group of psychotherapists and participants of an educational seminary of EAGALA - Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association.

Two years after her last visit to Lipica the legendary horsewoman Linda Tellington-Jones paid a visit to the Lipica Stud Farm once again. The Acting General Manager of the Lipica Stud Farm dr. Boštjan Bizjak expressed a warm welcome to her and invited her to visit the historical centre of the stud farm. The world-famous horse therapist and founder of »The Tellington Method« was impressed by the large pastures of the Lipica estate, offering optimal living conditions to the herd of Lipizzaner mares and foals.

In Lipica Stud Farm we started a large renovation of our stables and historical centre of the stud farm. With the renovation we will provide for better living conditions for our horses and a nicer look of the central area of the stud farm. We will also improve the tourist offer of the stud farm. The renovation will be completed by mid-December. During this period guided tours to the stud farm will be carried out following the regular timetable, but with a slightly different programme than usual. Visits to Lipikum – musem of the Lipizzaner will not be possible. Nevertheless we will do our best to make the guided tours a nice and pleasant experience for the visitors – an experience to remember.

Lipica Stud Farm hosted the international dog show "CACIB Koper" on October 4th and 5th. More than 1.600 dogs of more than 150 breeds from 20 countries partecipated at the event.

On Tuesday, 16 September, the construction work of the biggest and most important renovation project in the area of the Lipica Stud Farm in the last decade started with the extensive renovation of part of the roof of the “na Borjači” stable complex – the project »1st phase of the comprehensive maintenance of the area of the Lipica Stud Farm: maintenance of the land and buildings in relation to the performance of tourist programmes« with a total value of one million euros.