Gornja Voća: Hotels and Accommodation

Gornja Voća combines traditional architecture, religious heritage and customs passed down through generations. Anyone wishing to book a hotel in Gornja Voća can continue searching for accommodation afterwards.

Culture

The Virtual Zagorje Hiža is a traditional single-storey house built in 1917 from wide, horizontally layered oak beams coated with clay and straw. Using holograms, 3D technology, wall-mounted tablets and an interactive table, it conveys how people from the Voća area lived around a hundred years ago. The Virtual Zagorje Hiža can be visited by prior appointment with the Municipality of Donja Voća. It stands on Gruntišće Hill.

The Chapel of Saint John the Baptist in Gornja Voća was built in 1973 and painted by local artists. It contains three large altarpieces depicting the birth of John the Baptist, the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan and John in prison before his execution.

The nine stone Stations of the Rosary extend across Klenovnik and Gornja Voća and are registered as cultural heritage.

History

The restored Baroque wayside shrine Trpeći Krist stands on the summit of nearby Kogil breg, dates from around 1770 and was restored in 2014 after being destroyed during the Second World War.

Festivals and Customs

Voćansko Ivanje in Gornja Voća is associated with the long-standing celebration of Ivanje and the Feast of the Birth of Saint John the Baptist in the Voća area. On 26 June 2021, the event at the Ethno House in Gornja Voća included an art colony commemorating Slavko and Stjepan Stolnik. Voćansko Ivanje 2021 also revived Ivanjski krijes, an old custom from Voća, together with the several-hundred-year-old song “Sveti Ivan kresa kuri”.

At Voćansko Vincekovo in Gornja Voća, a walk leads through an area containing Vindija Cave, which is listed in the Croatian Register of Cultural Heritage under Gornja Voća and where Neanderthals lived; vineyard customs include pruning a vine and symbolically pouring wine over it.

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