Šalek style eating.
From a miner’s lunch to a 5-star culinary experience.
No matter where you are, you can pamper your taste buds with selected delicacies in Šaleška Valley. When you visit the Coal Mining Museum, you’ll experience a genuine miners’ lunch in a dining hall set 160 metres underground. This unforgettable is provided by Velenje Underground, with a top-class four course menu prepared by a team of chefs from cosmopolitan restaurant Vila Herberstein. Šaleška Valley has many restaurants with excellent chefs.
At tourist and excursion farms, or at a beekeeper’s, you can taste domestic dishes and local specialities whilst looking at fallow deer, mouflons and painted beehive panels.
When you visit the wine tourist road, you’ll cheer with wine, and discover local beer when hiking in the countryside. Don’t miss the excellent chocolate delicacies served in cafes and pastry shops.
The Promenade of Flavours is a culinary market with over 20 gourmet food and beverage providers. Twice a year, in June and September, in the open-air kitchen in the beautiful atmosphere of the Velenje promenade, you can taste the delicious gastronomic surpluses prepared by chefs from the region and the rest of Slovenia.
Beach Food Festival – a market of fresh summer culinary delicacies delights fans of modern cuisine’s rich flavours. It smells delicious all the way to Velenje beach, where the Pljusk into Lake Velenje event is usually held at the same time. A variety of dishes from all over Slovenia are available. Beer fans will be delighted by the availability of kraft beers, and fans of premium wines and other refreshing beverages will also get their money’s worth.
The Šalek Beer Festival was organized for the first time in 2015. More than 3,000 people attended the event throughout the day, making it a very pleasant diversification of events in the old town of Šoštanj. We will be presenting the culture of drinking beer as well as the increasingly popular boutique microbrewery in Slovenia at the event. Several smaller and unique breweries have sprung up on the Slovenian market in recent years, brewing beer according to their recipes.
The Šalek Wine Festival’s mission is to promote Slovenian wines and local cuisine, as well as the culture of wine drinking. The festival is for anyone who considers wine to be a business, a passion, or a love. With it, we hope to pay tribute to Slovenian winegrowers and visitors who value the efforts of winegrowers and winemakers, as well as to demonstrate the diversity and quality of the precious drop.
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Anytime you come to Šaleška Valley, you are in for a truly fine experience. Check which special events are will be happening when you visit!
Velenje Underground
A unique evening experience
Come by to enjoy some of the best gastronomic pleasures Slovenia has to offer. The dishes rooted in the coalminers’ traditions will be a feast for all senses!
Culinary games without borders
Two-day group creative workshop
Create brand new dishes with the knowledge and ingredients your group will gather during a ramble around selected locations in Šaleška Valley
An active and different time for two
A three-day experience in Velenje
Spice up your stay in Velenje with culinary experiences with the best views and the best chefs.
Villa Herberstein
Vila Herberstein is situated in one of the most beautiful locations in Velenje. It is located only two hundred metres from the town’s centre, close to the winter swimming pool, and the woodland behind the Villa is an excellent place for relaxing walks in the nature.
Hotel Paka
Hotel Paka has received numerous awards both in Slovenia and abroad. It has four stars.
Apat Tourist Farm
The Apat family also offers comfy accommodation in a modern apartment house where you can spoil yourself with sauna or jacuzzi.
Skubeer Brewing
With its aroma and colour, each of the beers interprets one of the local stories: 1st Hajer, for instance, refers to the strong miners in dark pits.
Lamperček Tourist Farm
You can choose to explore the surroundings by bike. Biserčkova pot (The Pearl Road) is perfect for this type of adventure.
Underground adventure in the Coal Mining Museum of Slovenia
Accommodations
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Thanks to a package of the right experiences for yourself, you two, your family or group, you will discover Šaleška Valley in a completely different way!
Glamping Valley of Peace at Lamperček
The cottages are located in a quiet area by the stream, where you can unwind from the hustle and bustle of the city while listening to the birds’ chirp.
Topolšica Spa
When our path leads us astray from the main roads into the heart of nature, we are greeted by an infinite assortment of primal experiences.
Hotel Paka
Hotel Paka has received numerous awards both in Slovenia and abroad. It has four stars.
Hotel Razgoršek
Hotel Razgoršek is a family hotel, where all the rooms are furnished in style. It is located only 15 kilometres from the motorway exit, in the vicinity of shopping centres, the bank, post office and coach and rail station.
Youth hostel Velenje
Velenje Youth Hostel is located only 500 metres from the town centre and the main bus station, on the shores of the river Paka opposite the Livada Elementary School.
Prenočišče Mraz
The Mraz Accommodation is located at the edge of the woodland in the hamlet of Gorica near Velenje. Here guests can relax and enjoy the peaceful, natural environment.
Youth centre Šmartno ob Paki
The Šmartno ob Paki hostel is located in the shelter of Mount Oljka (733m) and is easily accessible from all urban centres.
Camp Velenje
The Jezero camping site is located at the Velenje lake, only one kilometre fro the town’s centre in the Westerly direction.
Apat Tourist Farm
The Apat family also offers comfy accommodation in a modern apartment house where you can spoil yourself with sauna or jacuzzi.