ITINERARY:
10.00h - meeting point: Swanky Mint hostel
11.00h - Krapina Neanderthal museum
13.00h - Trakošćan castle
14.30h - drive back to Zagreb
15.30h - Zagreb
KRAPINA
Homo sapiens Neanderthalensis - prehistoric man was discovered all the way back in 1899, when geological and paleontological research started on Hušnjakovo hill in Krapina – now you have to visit your long lost cousins who were living in this area about 125,000 years ago.
The new Krapina Neanderthal Museum is a unique visiting complex. Its architecture evokes the habitat of the prehistoric man: the semi-cave, the volume, proportions and the front of which are a result of the analysis done on the appearance of the ancient Krapina semi-cave.
TRAKOŠĆAN
This next stop takes you to a medieval period.
Imagine a castle! Did you? Yes, that's exactly how Trakošćan looks like! A beautiful, breathtaking fairytale castle. The most attractive and most visited Croatian castle is sitting on a hilltop surrounded by a lake, looking over a gentle landscape of Croatian Zagorje.
Inside, there is a museum with a permanent exhibition which will give you perfect insight to a life of royals.
Lunch on request in a local restaurant.