Central Square

Slovenska Street

Pohorje on bike

Pohorje on bike

Maribor City Park

Lent festival

Maribor old city

Scene from Borštnik gathering

is the Štajerska capital, the second most important centre in Slovenia, invites you to the embrace of its wine growing hills and green Pohorje. It is the foothills and the slopes of the Mariborsko Pohorje that are developing into the key tourist area which offers the experiences of wellness and congress center, and other tranquil and lively activities may it be in winter, summer, or both transitional seasons when nature awakens or prepares for rest. In the glimmering surface of the river Drava, on which you can also raft, on Lent Stara trta (the Old Vine), the oldest vine in the world, reflects from day to day.

Extensive vineyards, which rise from the edge of town over the hills of Maribor, are interwoven with more than 50 kilometres of wine roads. These roads are sown with wine shops and tourist farms, which with their homemade wine and food entice ramblers, cyclists and friends of the iron horse. The wine roads begin their way up the hills right from the city streets, where guests can visit the underground city cellar, which is one of the biggest and oldest classic cellars in Europe, to taste selected wines, a symbol of the wine culture of this merry part of Štajerska. City as well as wine growers and Pohorje caterers like to serve tasty Štajerska culinary specialities along with top quality wine.

A walk through the City Park, along with a visit to the aquarium and terrarium, brings refreshment - but just a few minutes away from the city core is a sea of forests. Located here on Mariborsko Pohorje, is the biggest winter-sports tourist centre in Slovenia. Offering widespread mountain paths, tourist infrastructure and abundant, pleasant greenery Pohorje is attractive for lovers of animation as well as for those who enjoy peaceful relaxation - at all times of the year!

Discovering Pohorje's primeval forest and pure waters offers an unforgettable experience for ramblers as well as lovers of horse riding and cycling. You can also try parachuting, hang gliding, ballooning and tobogganing on grass in the Pohorje Adrenalin Park, where overcoming obstacles is immense entertainment for both young and old alike. Particularly pleasant atmospheres are animated during special events; among the most resounding is certainly the already traditional Golden Fox, a competition for the World Cup in skiing for women.

Mariborians are renowned as being good event organizers and hosts. The culmination of Slovene theatrical creativity is the annual Borštnik gathering, the international multicultural Festival Lent and events within the frame of The Embrace of the Old Vine, Music in September Festival, The Rafter's Christening, city’s spring carnival and along with skiing and a number of other top sports competitions there are excellent opportunities for different kinds of experiences in Maribor. A casino - Casino Maribor, enriches the nightlife in the city.

Bearing witness to a flourishing history is the rich architecture of past centuries, which reflect in the frontages of the houses. In spite of all the past stormy times the old town centre is well preserved with visible remains of the defence wall. The Slovene National Theatre Maribor, the rich Provincial museum Maribor housed in the monumental building of the city castle along with other city museums and galleries, the cultural-event centre Narodni dom Maribor, numerous amateur groups and varied cultural-entertainment life of the university students in Maribor enrapture visitors.

Maribor is becoming a modern shopping place and one of the biggest tourist centres in the country. The Wellness & SPA-centre in Hotel Habakuk and the Medical-Recreational centre Fontana offer excellent opportunities for relaxing holidays.

Also those attending congresses in the new Convention Centre Habakuk and small groups will enjoy the varied free time activities.

Surrender to Maribor's embrace, which offers you numerous opportunities for experiences - let it be for an hour, a day a week or more! You will always want to come back to Maribor!


NOTE: The content of this page is taken from Maribor an embrace of experience. For further information on Maribor see also the official web site Maribor - tourist destination.