Pitomača: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Since 2008, the Mura–Drava Regional Park in the area of the Municipality of Pitomača has included the protected landscapes of Križnica, Jelkuš and Širinski otok, as well as the Vir wetland. Anyone who has chosen Pitomača as a travel destination may wish to rent a holiday apartment.

Nature

Jelkuš is a protected landscape bordered by the Croatian-Hungarian border and the Drava; an isolated sand ridge there provides a habitat for birds. Širinski otok is a natural landscape bordered by a side channel and the main course of the Drava. It is isolated and provides a habitat for numerous bird species; when water levels are low, the riverbed of the old Drava course becomes a natural ford for animals.

Križnica is a river island and a particularly well-defined meander of the Drava, whose flower shape with five petals is easily recognisable and is considered a symbol of this section of the river course. Bilogora is regarded as an internationally important bird protection area (SPA, Special Protection Area) within Croatia’s and the European Union’s NATURA 2000 network. Populations of bird species listed in the Red Book of Threatened Birds of Croatia breed there.

Culture

The birthplace of the poet Petar Preradović in Grabrovnica is a historic house built in the 18th century and a cultural monument; it is intended to be opened to visitors, with individual or group visits requiring advance notification and reservation.

The Petar Preradović House contains the multimedia exhibition “Virtualna Stvarnost”, featuring an immersive 3D reconstruction of the poet’s birthplace. The house offers interactive content such as completing a poem, assembling verses together and quizzes; in the “Susreti” basement area, visitors encounter Petar Preradović in holographic form.

The parish church of Saint Vid in Pitomača is the largest and is protected cultural heritage. Since the mid-20th century, Pitomača has been regarded as the birthplace of tamburica instrument making in the Kos workshop.

Experiences

The Križnica Visitor Centre combines a modern multimedia centre with organised nature programmes, a ferry, a suspension bridge and local cuisine. The Klopotec Trail is a trail-running route through a landscape shaped by centuries-old tradition, with climbs, descents and viewpoints.

Regional Cuisine

In the immediate vicinity of the votive chapel of Saint Martin stands an impressive Klopotec structure; next to it are a visitor hut and an authentic wine cellar. Pečenjak, or roasted corn, is a speciality prepared and served to visitors in various ways at a unique summer event in Pitomača in late July or early August.

Further local navigation: Otrovanec.

To the overarching travel overview: Općina Pitomača.