{"id":4646,"date":"2023-03-30T09:51:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T09:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitnorthcroatia.com\/?p=4646"},"modified":"2025-06-09T15:28:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:28:56","slug":"dvorac-festetic-hogwarts-usred-medimurja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitnorthcroatia.com\/en\/dvorac-festetic-hogwarts-usred-medimurja\/","title":{"rendered":"Fe\u0161teti\u0107 Castle: Hogwarts in Me\u0111imurje"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between the town of \u010cakovec and Marina Prelog, there is a little town of Pribislavec, above which from the hill the Fe\u0161teti\u0107 castle overlooks the entire area. Due to its architectural characteristics in the neo-Gothic style, this castle easily reminds visitors of the famous Hogwarts school of wizardry. This is not necessarily incorrect, as the coincidence is more than visual\u2014until recently, there really was a school here, and it's quite possible that it spawned a few wizards in some scientific field. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But let's go a bit further into the past. First, the older castle of the Zrinski family, the famous owners of \u010cakovec, stood on this site. This older castle was built so close to their \u010cakovec home because it served as a hunting lodge at a time when this entire area was surrounded by dense forests. But when the Zrinsko-Frankopan rebellion was suppressed, the old castle in Pribislavac was taken over by the Althan family. Although they started to restore it, the credit for its present-day appearance goes to the old noble family from Turopolje, after whom the castle is named: the Fe\u0161teti\u0107 family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the site of the old castle, the Fe\u0161teti\u0107 family built a new one in the middle of the 19th century in the neo-Gothic style. You will notice it on pointed arches, large windows and numerous decorations. This style of construction was popular at that time, so even the famous Trako\u0161\u0107an castle (which was in the process of a major renovation in the 1850s) has neo-Gothic elements. The builders left a permanent seal of ownership in Pribislavac, so if you find yourself by this castle, be sure to find the coats of arms of the Fe\u0161teti\u0107 family above the entrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Although there was a large surrounding park with fountains, the construction of the settlement in more recent times expanded and slowly trampled the former large garden. Only a few old trees that are left prove that the Fe\u0161teti\u0107 family took great care to make their backyard pleasant for daily walks. Today, this is perhaps best confirmed by the magnolia tree, which, in order to preserve it at least for a little longer, was declared a monument of park architecture. The castle, which is currently owned by Me\u0111imurje County and is awaiting the start of the renovation, is currently closed to the public. But the flowering of this magnolia in early spring is a good enough reason to visit it and admire the castle from the outside.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Izme\u0111u grada \u010cakovca i Marine Prelog nalazi se Pribislavec s \u010dijeg bre\u017euljka cijelo podru\u010dje nadgleda dvorac Fe\u0161teti\u0107. Zbog svojih arhitektonskih karakteristika u neogoti\u010dkom stilu, ovaj dvorac posjetitelja lako asocira na poznatu \u0161kolu \u010darobnja\u0161tva Hogwarts. To nije nu\u017eno neto\u010dno jer podudarnost je ve\u0107a od vizualnog dojma\u2014do nedavno ovdje je zaista bila \u0161kola, a lako mogu\u0107e da […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitnorthcroatia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitnorthcroatia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitnorthcroatia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitnorthcroatia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitnorthcroatia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4646"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/visitnorthcroatia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5562,"href":"https:\/\/visitnorthcroatia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions\/5562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitnorthcroatia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitnorthcroatia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitnorthcroatia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitnorthcroatia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}