Top 9 Scenic Walking Areas in Samobor, Central Croatia

Remains of the medieval noble town Okić on the Žumberak hill

You will find this monument right in front of the entrance to the Samobor Museum. Ivica Sudnik is its founder, photografer and cultural worker. He shot numerous photos of Samobor and surroundings, and wrote a lot of articles, prose, historical insights about Samobor.

The "first Samobor vacation house", Villa Wagner is located across the Franciscan monastery and it is surrounded by a sequoia park. Wagner came in Samobor in 1870. as a retired senior officer after serving in the Military Region.

The monument to victims of the Homeland War dominates on the central part of the park. A memorial wall, with the names of 53 killed soldiers in the Homeland War from the areas of Samobor and Sveta Nedelja, starts from the central monument.

The chapel of St. Ana has been mentioned for the first time in 1759. It was sang in many songs. It is classified in the second category of monumental values.

Kočo Racin a Macedonian poet. He was the founder of the Macedonian poetical modernism after his collection of poems "Beli mugri" was printed in Samobor.

Ferdo came to Samobor and changed his German last name Wiesner to Livadić. He had a very important role in Croatia National Revival and in cultural rise of the Samobor region. He was very well known to all the people of Samobor.

The passage is situated next to the Church of St. Anastasia. Here you can find the boards with the love verses of the greatest Croatian poets as well as the grave of Juliana Cantilly, the muse of the poet Stanko Vraz. The poets are gathering here every year to read the selected poems.

The Calvary consists of 13 stations of the Way of the Cross, great crucifix and two crosses. The calvary was built to celebrate 1900 of Salvation of Jesus Christ. The stations were made of aritificial stone.