Winter Activities

Discover Maribor’s hidden treasures and listen with fascination to the stories related by a professional guide as you are taken on a walking or train tour of the city’s top attractions. Cycling and wine tours are also available by special arrangement.

Get to know excellent Styrian wines! The Maribor Wine Trail takes you through the wine cellars in the centre of Maribor where you will be able to get to know excellent Styrian wines and their producers. The Maribor Wine Trail package includes: Wine bar LeVino Maribor Water Tower Wine Shop The Old Vine House Purchase packages Maribor Wine Trail or Maribor Wine Trail with visit to the wine underground: TIC Maribor, Partizanska cesta 6 A Street, Maribor, Phone: +386 (0) 2 23 46 611, E-mail: tic@maribor.si Old Vine House, Vojašniska ulica 8 Street, Maribor, Phone: +386 (0) 2 25 15 100, E-mail: stara-trta@maribor.si A possibility for an extra charge: A professionally guided tour on the topic of the city’s wine culture: surcharge according to the guidebook.

Embark on a wine pilgrimage on one of the most beautiful Slovenian wine routes. Enhance your wine culture in the company of a top sommelier and taste the fusion of Štajerska wine varieties and selected local cuisine. Learn about Štajerska winemakers and capture a magic moment of the famous heart between vineyards, one of the most beautiful vistas in Slovenia. What does the experience include? - Meeting a guide/sommelier in front of the Old Vine House. - A ride to Svečina, welcome sparkling wine and taking photos by the famous heart-shape wine road. - Wine tasting accompanied by professional insight of a wine-maker and sommelier and tasting local delicacies. - A ride to Maribor to the Vinag Wine Cellar. - A visit to the Vinag Wine Cellar, one of the largest and oldest classical wine cellars in Europe! Presentation of wine stories, climbing into a concrete barrel and wine tasting. - A stroll round the Maribor city centre to the Old Vine House in Lent. - A visit to the Old Vine House and a possibility to take photos in the canopy of the oldest vine in the world. Expert tasting of the samples selected among 190 wines of the Podravje region. Making a souvenir from a cork.

Pleasant natural atmosphere. Do you enjoy being surrounded by colourful plants or are interested in the finer details of botany? In the botanical garden - you will find it below the green slopes of Pohorje – visitors are surrounded by domestic and foreign flora. Admire them during a walk through the garden or with the help of a guided tour (bookings should be made in advance) get acquainted with happenings in the field of botany here in Slovenia as well as new happenings around the world.

Adventure park under the castle treetops. Experience hunters, welcome to the adventure park. You are in for an unforgettable climbing under the castle treetops on three tracks of different difficulties. Even the youngest ones are taken care of, and they can try out various activities, such as rope walking.

This huge wine cellar spreads 15,000m² and is one of the oldest in Europe. Many of Maribor’s finest wines are produced here. Visitors can book wine tasting and a tour of the cellars. For further information and reservation please contact: Vinag wine cellar T: + 386 31 542 232 E: info@vinag1847.si

For adrenaline enthusiasts. Do you dare going high, among the treetops? Rise to the heights and spend an adrenaline afternoon among the treetops without any time limit. We recommend closed shoes, shirts reaching shoulders and trousers under the knees.

Interested in happenings that took place in our locality in World War II? You are invited to the historical museum, which deals with museology and historiograhical proceedings of modern history of Northeastern Slovenia, which can be found in a bourgeois villa in the city centre on the corner of the streets Mladinska and Ulica heroja Tomšiča. You can visit: The museum's specialty is its archives with more than 120 metres of first-class material of occupier and partisan origin. The permanent exhibition shows happenings in the region of Maribor between World War II. In all six exhibition rooms visitors learn about: - the Nazi occupation, - the occupier's Germanizational measures of the Slovenian population and - the organization of the resistance and the operations of the resistance groups and partisan units in this part of Slovenia from 1941 up to the end of the war. If you are interested in more detailed information on the above we offer professional guided tours through the exhibitions and collections.

Once you are in the square of Slomškov trg, you must visit Maribor Cathedral. The construction of the cathedral and its further development brought Maribor additional cultural impetus and enforcement. It was built in the 12th century as a Romanesque building. Today it shows a Gothic style with a long chancel dating from the 14th century and a central church nave from the 15th century. The 57 metre high classicist designed bell tower dates back to the end of the 18th century as the primarily 76-metre high bell tower built by Pavel Porta in the year 1623 was struck by lightening.

The Maribor Synagogue today is a centre for cultural activities and it offers visitors different events including exhibitions, concerts, literary evenings and round tables. You can find the Synagogue in the square Židovski trg in the former Jewish quarter, which is situated near the square Glavni trg. Its purpose through time Maribor's synagogue was first mentioned in the year 1429, but for sure it was built earlier on. Occasionally it served as the seat of the supreme rabbinate for Štajerska, which concludes that there was a Jewish community here. The synagogue was consecrated as Catholic Church and called All Saints in 1501. It was turned into and used as warehouse after 1785. Next to the synagogue once stood the rabbi's house, a Talmud school and a graveyard, and down by the river Drava a ceremonial bathing place.

When exploring the old town core, it is impossible to overlook the "reddish" Franciscan church with its monastery. It is located next to important streets in the centre of town, such as Partizanska cesta and Svetozarevska ulica. Do you know the legend of the Franciscan Monks? “Long, long ago some farmers gave the Francis brothers the gift of a cow. But the monks did not have a rope to put around the cow’s neck, which of course caused them a lot of trouble. Since then they always wear a rope around their waits”.

The Maribor City Park is a popular promenade and meeting point for residents of all generations and an inviting spot for all visitors of this city by the Drava River. Many of the trees in the park are over 140 years old and, since 1976, the area is protected as a landscape monument. Leave the noise of the city behind and take a walk through the beautifully landscaped City Park, where you will discover three ponds, the popular Aquarium and terrarium , and the playground. The path, which weaves through all types of trees, artfully arranged flower beds, water fountains, and by the hill of roses, will let you relax and calm your mind. You can sit on the banks by the beautiful ponds and enjoy the company of water birds or take a rest under the crowns of giant trees.

There are three wine roads covering a total of 50kms and all beginning in the city centre. Most can be travelled by car, but there is one that can be walked in around 4 hours. For more info and maps inquire at TIC, or visit their website.

Mariborsko Pohorje is an excellent destination for spending winter holidays on ski slopes in the close vicinity of the city. Ski runs for all levels of skills, snow boarding, cross-country tracks and toboggan runs, ski school, attractive floodlit night skiing, adrenaline park, horse riding and carriage, torchlight processions... It’s the Golden Fox, one of the most resounding and best visited competitions for the World Cup in skiing for women, venue.