MARIAN PILGRIMAGE ROUTES

Are generated by the needs of many pilgrims, nature lovers and a healthy lifestyle or just a desire to learn about different cultural and tourist destination.

Roads linking cities and towns, state and church institutions which are addressed in union towards a specific goal.
The project area covers the Slovenian side recently, Podravje, Haloze and Dravinjski hills, Voglajnsko - Soteljska Slovenia and Kozjansko park district, and the Croatian Varaždin, Krapina and Zagorje region. This area is very rich in religious cultural heritage in which the most obvious place is occupied by Marian shrine, or church, mostly pilgrims. They were in the project area in Slovenia, around 50 According to highlight the importance of Ptujska worse and worse over the Holy Bistrica ob Sotli that given the long tradition of pilgrimage and the number of annual visitors are the most important point of the project on the Slovenian side. The Ptujska burning is one of the most beautiful Gothic churches in Slovenia, which annually attracts around 60,000 visitors. Holy up the Bistrica ob Sotli famous place of pilgrimage Slovenes and Croats since the 13th century and, together with a unique complex of five churches, a pearl of cultural heritage in Slovenia. The Croatian project area highlights the pilgrimage center Marija Bistrica, the Croatian national shrine annually reported about 800,000 visitors (a large part of Slovenia).