Discover Požega-Slavonia County

Požega-Slavonia County offers a wide range of ways to spend a day of your holiday: a protected wetland, hiking trails, historic architecture and places where the past is presented in different ways. The county’s geographical layout is also important when planning your trip. It consists of two spatially separate areas: the Požega Basin and the Pakrac-Lipik area. So when choosing a holiday apartment or holiday home, first decide which places and themes are most important for your trip. This division gives you a useful starting point for organizing regional discoveries according to your interests.

Landscape and birdlife at Lake Sovsko

Lake Sovsko in Čaglin is protected as a significant landscape and forms a wetland habitat for numerous water birds, including reed warblers, coots, grebes and wild ducks. This combination of protected landscape and birdlife adds a distinct natural highlight alongside Požega’s cultural attractions. If you want to take both nature and architectural history into account when planning your holiday, you’ll find two different areas of interest here.

Architecture and remembrance in Požega

Baroque arcades and the Kužni pil monument define Trg sv. Trojstva in Požega. The votive monument commemorates the 798 people of Požega who died of the plague in the 18th century. Baroque design and a specific act of remembrance stand side by side here. The Church of the Holy Spirit on the square has one of the largest Romanesque portals dating from the 13th century. The Gothic Church of St. Lawrence in Požega, with its impressive 14th-century frescoes, offers a different art-historical highlight. The different architectural styles and periods give you several points of reference for understanding Požega’s historic landmarks.

Fossils, city history and virtual journeys through time

The House of the Pannonian Sea in Velika displays numerous fossils of prehistoric life, mostly marine animals, and explores the distant past of the “Slavonian Archipelago.” Požeška kuća offers a different period and theme: on the ground floor, a multimedia installation takes visitors on a journey through Požega’s past. At the Terra Panonica Interpretation Centre in Pleternica, virtual reality and VR headsets take visitors millions of years back in time. The experiences differ in their themes and media: fossils and the distant past are set alongside multimedia city history and a virtual journey through time. This allows you to choose based on the kind of history that interests you.

Hiking routes of different lengths

The Velika–Jezerce–Jankovac–Velika Geotrail is a 24.4-kilometre circular route. It starts and ends at the Church of St. Augustine in Velika, giving the circuit a clearly identified starting and finishing point. By contrast, the Slavonski planinarski put is approximately 320 kilometres long. The comparison shows the difference in scale: one specific circular route and one much longer hiking trail. If you’re including hikes in your travel plans, these details can help you decide what kind of route you’d like to explore.

Discover more areas

Discover more destinations: Brestovac Municipality, Požega Municipality, Pleternica Municipality, Čaglin Municipality, Kutjevo Municipality, Lipik Municipality, Velika Municipality, Pakrac Municipality, Jakšić Municipality.

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