Tips for exciting tours in the Heart of Slovenia

treated with some traditional specialities by the members of
Gora Tourist Association (Turistično društvo Gora), who welcome
tourists from 2pm till dusk.
When you return to the valley, you
might want to bathe in the thermal
pools of Terme Snovik thermal
spa and relax for a while. Afterwards
you can visit the thermal
spring Potok where people like to
taste its healing water. Continue
your trip through the valley to
Motnik borough. The nobleman
Motnik gained the right to hold a
market in 1423 from the Austrian
archduke Ernest Železni, the last
archduke enthroned in Slovene
language on Zollfeld, today’s Austria.
A very dynamic and colourful lifestyle
in Motnik, a town under a
mighty castle (it burnt down in
1760), also attracted many villains, thieves and bandits. In order
for the authorities to deal with such people, they established
their own jurisdiction to handle smaller crimes. The convicted
were tied for a while to a pranger (pillory) or sentenced to jail.
It is less known that the Motnik family owned a mine of
brown coal into which they put all their hopes, believing that
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