Škofja Loka (pronounced [ˈʃkoːfja ˈloːka] ⓘ; German: Bischoflack) is a town in Slovenia.

[2] It is the economic, cultural, educational, and administrative center of the Municipality of Škofja Loka in Upper Carniola.

North of the town center is Kamnitnik Hill (414 meters or 1,358 feet high), known for its conglomerate rock.

[8] In 973, the lordship of Škofja Loka was granted by Emperor Otto II to the Bishops of Freising, and for the next one thousand years the history of the town was tied to that of the distant ecclesiastical principality.

Emperor Otto III granted the bishops the right to mint coinage and collect tolls.

Laws were passed against the new religion, and a Counter-Reformation committee was convened at the castle in 1601, resulting in the burning of Protestant books.

Škofja Loka was the first town in Carniola to receive electric lights, even before the 1895 Ljubljana earthquake.

An unknown number of Home Guard prisoners of war and Slovene civilians, and possibly victims of other nationalities were murdered and buried at several sites in and around Loka Castle.

[10] Škofja Loka has one of the best-preserved medieval urban centers in Slovenia,[2] and the town was proclaimed a cultural monument in 1987.

The text in its current form was written around 1715 by the Capuchin Father Romuald (Lovrenc Marusič), based on an older tradition.

The most prominent, in addition to the Škofja Loka Passion Play, are a copy of Jurij Dalmatin's Bible (the first translation of Bible to Slovene, 1584), the Dictionarium quatuor linguarum (the first multilingual dictionary of Slovene, 1592), two volumes of the Glory of the Duchy of Carniola (a detailed description of the central part of Slovenia and Istria; 1689), some 16th-century copies of Plato and Aristotle, and Aesop's fables, a compendium by Johann Zahn of mathematics and natural history from the end of the 17th century, titled Specula physico-mathematico-historica notabilium ac mirabilium sciendorum (Physico-Mathematico-Historical Mirrors of Remarkable and Wonderful Things to Be Known), and others.

This active town twinning began in 1991 and there are regular events, such as a produce market from each of the other countries and festivals.