Maribor - a city surrounded by beauty – part IV

But I suggest you to avoid the highway and continue back towards Maribor on the old local road, the one I’ll describe to you now.

In Jarenina itself you will find the church of St. Mary’s Assumption, the steeple of which might remind you more of a fortress tower. That is more than understandable, since the original church was burned down in one of Turkish campaigns against Vienna and the church was rebuilt and got its current form right after that. Apart from the church you can also visit yet another offspring of the oldest grapevine in the world, but personally I’d recommend you to sneak a peek at the village cemetery as well.
 
Next you should continue over Gačnik, pass the orchard of a fruit center – which is not actually opened for tourists, but is a great example of model fruit growing, so if you’re a specialist in the field, you might want to visit them. Most of us, however, would just continue on to the Eder family estate.

There you can see the collections of farm tools, which were once used and can see how a typical farm of Slovenske gorice functions today. After hearing a few anecdotes you will be ready to head back for Maribor.
 
And my advice would be, to take the old road across Košaki and turn right to Počehova, where again, you’ll have a chance for some wine degustation – and trust me, the wines really are extraordinary. But above all you will get to see a part of Maribor that is completely cut off from the rest of the town. Počehova lays between the main road that used to connect Maribor to the world and the highway, railway and somewhat current main road leading into the city. So it’s a remote part of the city, where you will not notice you’re just a few minutes’ walk away from the main railroad station.

And upon returning to the city I suggest you get a rest for the next tour of discovering the beauty around the city of Maribor!

Borut Jurišič