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City Park and Sport Park TŠC

The city park is a place where you can relax and hang out with your friends. It is full of trees and bushes, but you can take a walk on the paved path. There is also a fountain, which serves as a symbol of the river Mura and the importance of the historic significance of the river for this area and the people living here.

A children’s playground can be found here and a statue called Kiss, made by the hands of the academic sculptor Metod Ferlic, which is devoted to love and understanding.

The written history of Radgona as a town of fairs reaches back as early as 1401.

The first modern fair with today’s name was organized in 1962. The fair hosts a variety of events, from those from a business sphere, to those from a social sphere in the international sense from the fields of agriculture, ecology, hunting and tourism. AGRA, Mednarodni kmetijsko-živilski sejem (the International Fair of Agriculture and Food) takes place on the last weekend in August.

Apolonia trail

INFO:

Zavod za kulturo, turizem in promocijo Gornja Radgona Partizanska cesta 11 SI-9250 Gornja Radgona T: +386(0)2 564 89 07 F: +386(0)2 564 89 08 E: info@kultprotur.si

Bridge of Friendship Through centuries the story of Radgona is interwoven with the story of the bridge, which used to connect Gornji and Spodnji Gris, but today serves as a link between two towns, two countries, two languages. The bridge of friendship is a symbol of linking the business and friendship relationships. It is a symbol of finding similarity in difference. Traces of love can be found all over the bridge.

Round plates are built into the bridge and they move with the wind, which makes it seem like the whole bridge is submerged in the waving motion, symbolizing the flow of the river Mura.

UNIT TIC: Opening hours: 1 APRIL - 31 OCTOBER THURSDAY to SUNDAY 10am to 5pm

Kerenčičeva ulica 16 si-9250 Gornja Radgona t: +386(0)2 564 82 40 e: info@tic-radgona.si

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Negova 13 si-9245 Spodnji Ivanjci t: +386(0)40 629 118 e: info@gradnegova.si Location, Castle Negova: 46°36’39.89” 15°56’11.9”

www.kultprotur.si Issuing body: Kultprotur For issuing body: Mag. Norma Bale Design: Dejan Štampar Drawing: Karolina Erjavc Printed by: Studio OK Quantity: 500 pcs

Red-haired Apolonia was accused of witchcraft in Gornja Radgona in the 18th century. The reason behind it was she cured people and animals with herbs and produced more butter from the same amount of milk than her fellow farmers’ wives. From the Bridge of Friendship she steps into the wine cellar under the romantic cascade and refreshes herself with sparkling wine bubbles and the autochthonous Ranina wine. From the side, she glances at the Spital, the unique building from the 17th century, and the Never Again Memorial Park, a reminder of fights for our country’s independence. She stops in the Alley of the Great, dedicated to famous people from Radgona, ascends to the parish church of St. Peter and continues on her way to the spring of Ivanjševci, where she stops for a while and drinks water rising from her native land, for which, not so long ago, it was said that it was cooked underground by no one else but the witches. In a little while, she comes to Negova, where they welcome her in baroque clothes and, smooth with their words, play “gorska pravda” (an assembly of vassals who cultivated the vineyards) for her. After the visit to the Church of St. Mary, she is reminded of proper behaviour by the wall of shame (pranger).

The restored beautiful castle from the 14th century invites her within its walls. Along the castle wall, she gathers her herbs from among four hundred different kinds in the herbal park.

However, it’s time to go back, since a big fair is about to start in the town. She returns on the wine path through Črešnjevci, where Peter Dajnko, who loved words and bees, was born in a typical Pannonian house. She finally catches some breath in Lisjakova struga along the Mura River. There, wild garlic is collected in the spring and fish picnics are prepared in the summer. Since a lady in love never refuses good food, she turns to one of many tourist farms and treats herself to sour soup with buckwheat žganci, black pudding with sauerkraut and kvasenica or prleška gibanica as the evening approaches. Afterwards, she disappears into the night, but the scent of dried apples and aniseed remains in the air for quite a while.

Visitors tie ribbons to her walking stick in hope of their wishes for health and love coming true.

Memorial park “Never Again”

Špital Building

The building is from the beginning of the 17th century and its written history reaches back to 1614. On the ground floor and on the first floor a visitor can find halls, arches of which are placed on the four pillars from the Toscana region in Italy. The ground floor hall is a chapel and has Castle of Gornja a semi-circular open into an apse for the altar and is the Radgona The castle of Gornja Radgona only thing that sticks out from is built on a 265-meter hill of- the rectangle ground plan. fering a beautiful vista across The walls are full of traces of the surrounding area. It was the baroque frescos. Today’s first mentioned in the 12th shape of the building is century. It was built by the unique in Slovenia. nobleman Radigoj, Slovene A permanent museum collecby birth and the castle and later the town square and the tion Radgonski mostovi (the town itself were named after Bridges of Radgona) can be found in Špital. him. It was first thought that the name comes from the German word rad (wheel), which is featured in the town coat-of-arms. The first owners were noblemen Spanheim, later on the town changed many owners or managers.

Avenue of Greats

Gornja Radgona was and still is a meeting place for many people, also creators, scholars and artists, who played important roles in the Slovene and also in the wider European sense, due to the great location near the river Mura and right next to all the vineyards and because of its great strategic location.

In the Avenue, portrait busts of famous people from Gornja Radgona are erected.

From 3 July, 2001, under the hill of the church of Saint Peter on the small square stands a memorial to the memory of the tenth anniversary of the war for the Slovene independence.

The plaque has the inscription “Never Again” in three languages, nine chromium-plated pipes with capitals represents the Slovenian trees, sculptured by the academic sculptor Mirko Bratuša. The cannon barrels were confiscated from the Yugoslavian army and left to father time to destroy them. As soon as the barrels are gone, the war and waging wars will be gone as well.

Cellar under Waterfall

The Church of Saint Peter

After 1545 when this was the setting of the first church service, following the tearing down of the church of Saint Rupert, which stood on the castle hill, the seat moved to Radkersburg. The church’s first mention dates back to 1466, the current building was built in 1813, since what remained from the previous one was only a cross chapel and the church wall of the tower. A post-Gothic crucifix and three ornate tombstones from the first half of the 17th century are built into the front façade. The inner walls of the church are painted with frescos.

The wine cellar has been producing the Golden sparkling wine after classic or champagne method and the Silver sparkling wine after tank or charmat method. Radgonske gorice produces well-established “sunlit” wine, which ripens in the cellars under the castle hill. You can visit these cellars via a guided tour and taste the wine.

Peter Dajnko Homestead

Peter Dajnko’s birth house is one of the few preserved and restored typical Pannonian houses, with a thatched roof, made out of support beams covered with clay. The house is about 350 to 400 years old, and the dwelling part where there is a lobby and the exhibition House of of ethnological objects and a Sparkling Wine small house with the original Frangež corner (the table and the bench) Frangež sparkling wine ripens and a pottery oven and an in the new vine cellar, called open-hearth kitchen. Some of House of Sparkling Wine the original documents from Frangež FP. the owners and Peter Dajnko, Worthy still wine is kept grammarian and dialectologist exclusively in the oak barrels from the 19th century, who was in the over 250 year-old wine trying to introduce a special alcellar with magnificent arches phabet (dajnčica), are preserved and pillars, which resemble a as well. church. A guided tour offers a short insight into the production after classic and charmat methods.

Negova Castle and Herbal Garden

Path between springs of life

Springs of mineral water and emissions of gasses are the lungs of the world, where nature gently shows its true strength. A glass of the sparkling water from a spring has a beneficent effect on the body and soul.

The history tells that the castle was established from the wooden mansion, which stood here in the 11th or 12th century. Under the name Vest Egaw it is first mentioned in 1425. The castle complex is an architectural, tourist and business unit and is a cultural monument. It can be used for business meetings, events and for organizing celebrations or even weddings. Also, a rich herbal garden can be found in the framework of the castle complex. The manor house serves as a tourist information center.

Channel Lisjakova struga

Negova Church and Whipping Post

The original Gothic church used to be a part of the castle complex and was unfortunately demolished. The current church of Mary’s birth was built between the years 1699 and 1710, in 1850 a Cross chapel was added. Under the church a whipping post is preserved dating back to 1656.

There used to be jurisdiction in Negova, which used to tie arguers, thieves, adulterers, suspicious wanderers and similar people to the whipping post. They were accused and later on sentenced in accordance with lords by a “market or castle judge”.

The forest park Lisjakova struga is a natural wealth next to the river Mura, meant for relaxation, recreation and getting to know natural heritage, flora and fauna. In Lisjakova struga you can find some of the protected tree sorts, such as black poplar and white willow.