Velika Planina
High pastures in the Kamnik–Savinja Alps, above 1,600 m, with a shepherds’ settlement of wooden huts with low roofs. You reach them by cable car from the Kamniška Bistrica valley.
Osrednjeslovenska · Slovenia
In the destination Kamnik and Velika Planina.
In the photo: Kamnik centre seen from Zaprice
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The city
Medieval town in the northern part of central Slovenia, between Ljubljana and the Kamnik–Savinja Alps. The old centre, with Šutna Street and Glavni trg square, surrounds the Mali grad hill and its Romanesque chapel. Zaprice Castle houses the city museum. From the valley to the north a cable car rises to the Velika Planina plateau with the shepherd huts.
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The local experience
High pastures in the Kamnik–Savinja Alps, above 1,600 m, with a shepherds’ settlement of wooden huts with low roofs. You reach them by cable car from the Kamniška Bistrica valley.
A hill in the middle of the old town with the remains of an 11th‑ or 12th‑century castle and a two‑storey Romanesque chapel over a crypt, with frescoes. From the top you can see Kamnik’s roofs and the Alps.
A Renaissance mansion on a hill in the south of Kamnik’s centre, home to the intermunicipal museum, with exhibitions on the town’s history, the mint, the shepherds of Velika Planina and local industry.