Municipality of Veliko Trojstvo: Culture and the Bilogora Tourist Route
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The Municipality of Veliko Trojstvo combines a landscape of fields, forests, vineyards and orchards with a range of cultural and horse-riding activities. When planning your trip, you can therefore consider whether you are most interested in regional history, the culture of the Roma Lovara or activities along the Bilogora Tourist Route.
Key facts about the Municipality of Veliko Trojstvo
The Bilogora Tourist Route lies within the municipality. Activities mentioned there include hiking and cycling tours, trail riding, and sport and recreational riding; hunting and fishing are also listed. Veliko Trojstvo is home to, among other things, Etno Park Veliko Trojstvo and individual wooden sculptures from the Svijetle pruge open-air gallery. The municipality includes the settlement of Veliko Trojstvo, about which you can find further information.
What shapes the municipality’s landscape?
The central area of Veliko Trojstvo is surrounded by forests, fields, vineyards and orchards. These landscape features give the municipality a distinctly rural character. The Bilogora Tourist Route is another point of reference for travellers interested in activities in the area. It lies within the municipality; the activities mentioned include walking and cycling as well as horse riding, fishing and hunting.
These activities are not all the same kind of outing: hiking and cycling tours sit alongside various forms of horse riding, as well as hunting and fishing. If you are planning your trip around particular themes, you can consider these different interests separately rather than assuming that the list describes a single route or a set itinerary.
What cultural sites and stories are there?
At Etno Park Veliko Trojstvo, an ethnographic collection of more than 1,000 exhibits illustrates the customs, culture and everyday life of the area in earlier times. The centre of the park is also home to a house where Josip Broz Tito once lived, which later served as a museum space. The park thus focuses both on the region’s everyday history and on the story of this house.
Another cultural focus is the Romska kuća. It is an ethno house belonging to the autochthonous Croatian Roma Lovara and also a gastronomic and cultural venue. Offerings include presentations on Roma history and customs, a permanent documentary-historical exhibition about the autochthonous Croatian Roma-Lovara, traditional Roma music and cuisine, and lavender products. This distinguishes it from the ethnographic collection at Etno Park: here, the focus is specifically on the history and customs of the Roma Lovara.
Two chapels are also among the historical sites mentioned. The Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows in the cemetery at Veliko Trojstvo was built in 1858 and restored in 1883, 1959 and 1996; it is designated a cultural monument. The Chapel of Saint Florian in Maglenča is mentioned as early as 1893. A new chapel was built there in 1971.
The Svijetle pruge open-air gallery is devoted to wooden sculptures, with individual sculptures located in Veliko Trojstvo. Since 2017, the event Jesen na Bilogori has also been held at Etno Park Veliko Trojstvo. These cultural themes therefore range from wooden sculptures and regional and Roma-Lovara history to the municipality’s chapels.
What horse-riding and leisure activities are mentioned?
For those interested in horse riding, there are specific offerings from two clubs in Veliko Trojstvo, in addition to the activities available along the Bilogora Tourist Route: Galopski klub Troja offers a riding school and recreational riding. Konjički klub Veliko Trojstvo offers carriage rides. These activities differ in nature: a riding school and recreational riding are not the same as a carriage ride.
The Pajdo hunting lodge is also associated with a specific leisure activity: it can organise hunts throughout the calendar year.
If you would like to compare other municipality profiles, you can also find Municipality of Daruvar, Municipality of Veliki Grđevac, Municipality of Čazma, Municipality of Kapela, Municipality of Bjelovar, Municipality of Garešnica and Municipality of Berek.
FAQ
What does the collection at Etno Park Veliko Trojstvo showcase?
More than 1,000 ethnographic exhibits illustrate the customs, culture and everyday life of the area in earlier times. The park is also home to a house where Josip Broz Tito once lived, which later served as a museum space.
What horse-riding activities are available in Veliko Trojstvo?
Galopski klub Troja offers a riding school and recreational riding. Konjički klub Veliko Trojstvo offers carriage rides.
What is the Romska kuća known for?
The Romska kuća is an ethno house belonging to the autochthonous Croatian Roma Lovara, as well as a gastronomic and cultural venue. Its offerings include presentations, a permanent documentary-historical exhibition, traditional music and cuisine, and lavender products.
For the overarching travel overview: Bjelovar-Bilogora.
