Mozirje, a market town of flowers and cable cars

Things to do in Mozirje: Mozirski gaj

It’s a flower park and open-air ethnographic museum on the right bank of the Savinja. The park explains that in 1974 locals began clearing an old common pasture full of scrub and fly-tipping, and that it opened on 27 April 1978 with the Hortikultura 78 show, seen by 80,000 people. Today there are flower beds, themed gardens, an 18 m wooden viewing tower, a pond and a collection of rural buildings, with a granary, a forge, a bee house, a water mill and a Venetian sawmill. The tourist office also claims the largest tuned wind chimes in Europe.

Since 2016 it has also opened in winter for the Božična bajka. The 2026 edition is the eleventh, from 28 November to 10 January 2027, with two million lights. If you ask me, that’s the best time to come, because the valley has little else on in December. The park reckons 90 minutes to two hours to see it without rushing, and the ticket desk only takes cash.

Golte and its cable car

From Žekovec runs the cable car its operator bills as the longest in Slovenia, at 3,265 m, with an eight-minute ride and almost 1,000 m of height gain. At the top, at 1,410 m, there’s Hotel Montis and a plateau with an adventure park, walking and cycling trails and, in winter, ski runs. The Mozirje tourist office books tandem paragliding flights from Golte for €140.

A market town over eight centuries old

According to SURS, Mozirje has 2,321 residents and its municipality 4,438 on 1 January 2026, spread over eight settlements. It recorded 19,881 tourist arrivals in 2025. The local tourist office says the place appears in documents from 1146 and as a market town from 5 May 1318. In 1580 it burnt to the ground, charters and all, and in 1581 Archduke Charles granted it a new charter and the coat of arms it still uses. That charter confirmed the St George’s fair on 24 April, today the municipal holiday.

Two streams run through the village, the Mozirnica and the Trnava, and local lore says that anyone who washes once in the Trnava can never leave Mozirje. I’d take a stroll round the old market town, where the benches and doorways are carved from greenish volcanic tuff, and look into the library, which keeps the local museum collection of photos, documents and objects.

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Where to eat, sleep and getting about

The tourist office recommends Gostilna Weiss, on the road up to Golte, for žlikrofi, štruklji and the local cured meat, savinjski želodec. For a bed there are flats in the market town itself, a woodland campsite by the Savinja and the Mozirska koča hut up on Golte. The tourist office also hires out e-bikes from €10 an hour. Coming up from Ljubljana, the Grom motorcycle museum at Vransko makes a good stop.

Mozirje pairs nicely with Nazarje and its Vrbovec Castle, a few minutes away, and with Rečica ob Savinji, right next door. To the east, Šmartno ob Paki has its old vineyard cottages. All of it belongs to the Savinjska region.

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