Herbal Magic in Savinja Valley - Slovenia Unique Experience
With the guidance of local herbal experts you will enter into the magical world of herbs, get to know the history of this charming village and visit the biggest church in Slovenia.
Slovenia is one of the most biotically diverse countries in the world. The herb garden is a model garden where you can see a treasure trove of Slovenian herbs. Clean drinking water from the well is a prestige that you get to taste in front of the cathedral.
The highlight of the experience are herbal bath, where you walk through the garden barefoot and evoke all of your senses with the help of guided invitations, and special tea ceremony in the herbal house, where you get to know 3 ingredients of the perfect cup of tea and listen to stories of the place.
The herb plate is the "gastronomic" ID card of the area. Honey represents the centuries-old tradition of beekeepers, herbs 333 years of monks, and buckwheat the fact that it was for the first time in Slovenia written down in Gornji Grad in 1426.
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Herbal Magic in Savinja Valley - Slovenia Unique Experience
What's included in Herbal Magic in Savinja Valley - Slovenia Unique Experience
(Subject to Option Inclusions)Herbal magic in Savinja valley is a sensory experience. With a natural sequence of stories and locations, we open the door for you to an intimate world of reflection, inspiration and contemplation. With each carefully selected location, story, challenge and invitation, the now obscured story of the 333 years of the Benedictines’ life in Gornji Grad is subtly and gradually revealed. You take the leading role in the experience. At the well, just as the monks once did, you wash your hands, catch the water and take your first sip with closed eyes. Guided visit of the cathedral evokes your imagination. With the help of sensory exercises and pristine barefoot contact with the earth, the herbal bath in the garden gently caresses all of your senses. Before leaving for the herbalist shop, you collect a bouquet of herbs for a herb spread. In the herbalist shop, you lose yourself in lively everyday work. You make your own personalized incense from selected herbs and create a delicious herb spread from the bouquet of fresh herbs you collected. The experience is rounded off with tea and a plate of homemade delicacies. A genuine sensory pampering for you and your senses!
Food Menu
STARTER - Herbal plate
Selection of homemade cheeses and honey, buckwheat bread with herbal spread, buckwheat cookies with honey, herbal tea
Inclusions
- visitation of the cathedral
- Bottled water
- herbal workshops (herbal bath, harvesting herbs, cooking class, making of incenses, tea ceremony)
- Brunch
- Coffee and/or Tea
- Private guide through the whole experience
- Wheelchair accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
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Pickup and Dropoff
You will make your own way to the meeting points
Meeting / End Points
- We meet at one of the oldest houses in the village. It is situated right at the main crossroad in the village center next to the cathedral. The house has a green facade, a huge semicircular window with ZELIŠČARNA sign in it.
