Slovenska Bistrica Castle (Slovenia)

Description: Address: Grajska 11 / 2310 Slovenska Bistrica / Slovenia / A renaissance palace outside the town of Slovenska Bistrica ... more

Slovenska Bistrica Castle (Slovenia) ... in eastern Slovenia.

Newest Review: ... introduced himself, phoned for a colleague to take over from him and he grabbed a set of ancient and very large keys from a hook and told us to follow him. Here commenced our own private tour of the castle. We started in the courtyard where Viktor told us about the construction of the castle and its previous owners. It is known there was a castle on this site in 1311 but due to major fires ... more

... in the town, it was repeatedly rebuilt, extended and altered by successive owners. The Wildenstein Counts added a park of which only a fraction is still parkland today. The Attems family owned the castle from the early eighteenth century until 1945. Th...more

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Slovenska Bistrica Castle (Slovenia): Slovenska Bistrica Castle - roll up for a private tour (1548 words)
by - written on 12/04/09 (Very useful, 192 readings)
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Every Slovenian town worth its salt has a castle (in Slovene a "grad") and Slovenska Bistrica's is one of the best. The castle is very much in the central European style and therefore looks more like a baroque mansion than a fortress. The town is surrounded by villages that nestle in the foothills of the Pohorje Massif and the castle is in the heart of the town rather than occupying a strategically defensive position from which to repel invaders. It is partly the seeming innocuous location that makes this castle seem less "castle-like". When the Germans controlled the town, Slovenian people weren't allowed to live inside its boundaries ... Read the complete review