Category: Worth seeing - Villas and castles
The Velenje Castle
If you close your eyes and try to imagine a fairytale castle, your image would probably not be far from the image of the Velenje castle.
The ruins of the Ekenstein castle
The castle ruins are located on the very top of a gentle ridge South-East of Velenje.
The Šalek Castle
The Šalek Castle, located on a steep knoll above the hamlet of Šalek, is probably the oldest manor house in the Šalek valley.
The Turn Castle
The Turn Castle is located on a gentle elevation in the hamlet of Hrastovec near Velenje.
Villa Bianca
For more than 700 years, at the foot of Velenje Castle, has stood today’s Old Velenje or the former Velenje Square, which was built in the middle of the 13th century along with the castle.
