Another hot ticket is the Vander Urbani Resort, which opened in 2012 near the banks of the Ljubljanica River.

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"Arab countries were very rare 20 years ago -- we had only Egypt, " said Vittorio Urbani, co-commissioner of the Iraq pavilion.

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"The exhibition means they can bring to an international audience cultural themes, not always scenes of bombs, suicide attacks and Saddam Hussein -- all the stuff related to Iraq, " said Urbani.

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