GUIDED TOURS
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We invite you to discover the treasures of the Municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem, presented to you by local guides.
Local tours are available every day by prior arrangement. Please contact us at info@visitcerklje.si or by phone at +386 (0)4 281 58 22 or +386 (0)51 387 373.
Guided Tours
The history of Cerklje can be explored in greater detail through visits to its important cultural heritage monuments.
During the tour, you can visit the Baroque Church of the Assumption of Mary in the center of Cerklje, Plečnik’s chapels, a Plečnik-designed monument dedicated to Davorin Jenko, the exterior of the Secession-style villa built by Mayor Ivan Hribar as his summer residence, the birthplace of the prominent theater figure Ignacij Borštnik, and a plague column near a 360-year-old parish lime tree. The tour continues to a memorial park dedicated to the prominent men of Cerklje.
Opposite this park stands Petrovčeva House, which until the mid-18th century was a small wooden farmhouse. This was a time when old wooden and half-timbered houses were disappearing in Gorenjska, and only small farmers and cottagers maintained wood construction. The restored house, locally known as "Pr Petrovc," houses a museum (currently closed for renovation), a gallery, a library, and the Cerklje Tourist Information Center. In the museum, old lanterns, candlesticks, measuring devices, irons, and other items will undoubtedly transport you to a time when candles were used instead of electricity, and our ancestors ironed with metal irons. In the archaeological section of the museum, the worlds of the living and the dead meet. Items such as bronze fibulae, coins, metal nails from Roman shoe soles, and oil lamps (used to light the way for the deceased into the dark underworld) were found in a rural Roman cemetery and on an old village Roman road built around 2,000 years ago.
At the foot of Štefanja Gora, near the entrance to the Graben Valley, you’ll see Adergas, where the former monastic and now parish Church of the Annunciation dominates the village. The church boasts a rich cultural and historical heritage. Its renovation began in 1732 and concluded in 1771, resulting in elements of Italian architecture. This Late Baroque building is adorned with seven altarpieces by the renowned Austrian Baroque painter Johann Martin Schmidt of Krems. The church’s most famous artwork is a Romanesque pilgrimage statue of Mary with Jesus, the oldest preserved Marian statue in Slovenia, dating to around 1220. Since the Middle Ages, the statue’s clothing has been changed for various religious occasions. It is believed that Patriarch Berthold II gifted the statue when the monastery was founded. The choir features four paintings of Mary’s life by Jean Valentin Metzinger, the most prolific Slovenian Baroque painter, born in 1699 in St. Avold, Lorraine. Beneath the church, catacombs were used to bury nuns who lived in the monastery. On a hill above the village are the ruins of Kamen Castle, destroyed during a Turkish invasion in 1471.
In the Beekeeping Museum, you can learn about the tradition of honey production, past and present. The museum includes a charming shop where you can purchase various types of local honey, propolis, pollen, honey schnapps, and beeswax products.
On a herbal organic farm, you’ll find traditionally grown organic herbs offered as teas, ointments, and tinctures to help with colds and other ailments.
Link to the official website: https://www.visitcerklje.si/sl/informacije/cerklje/drustva-in-druge-organizacije/ostala/zeliscarstvo
