Šenčur, farming villages on the Kranj plain next to the airport

Is Šenčur worth a stop?

For a few hours before a flight, yes, and for sleeping near Ljubljana airport without Ljubljana prices, too. For a longer trip I’d use Kranj as a base and pass through here.

Churches and frescoes in the villages

What catches my eye most is almost next door, in Srednja vas. The church of St Radegund goes back to the 15th century, was remodelled in the 18th, and in 1961 lightning struck it and exposed Gothic frescoes painted in 1440. Beside it, St Catherine’s, from the 16th century, keeps a wooden coffered ceiling. In Luže, the Gothic church of St John the Baptist has a high altar by Valentin Šubic, and in Voklo, St Bartholomew’s from 1862 has altars by the same family of artists from Poljane.

Bread, river and a lake

In Hotemaže, the Šuštar farm, more than two hundred years old, has a bread museum that shows the journey from grain to loaf, and you can taste it or bake it yourself in the black-kitchen oven. Between Visoko and Hotemaže a one-kilometre trail runs beside the Kokra with panels on its stones and landscape. To the south, at Trboje, a dam built in 1986 created a lake up to 17 metres deep where water birds nest, with a cake shop on the shore known for its strawberry desserts.

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By bike across the plain

This is easy cycling country. The Kranj Tourist Board suggests a loop from Kranj through Hrastje, Voklo, Voglje and Vodice, almost all on gravel tracks and forest paths, with no climbs and the scent of blueberries in early summer. In October 2026 Šenčur was, with Ljubljana, the main host of the European road cycling championships, and the elite men’s race set off from Ljubljana and finished here, watched by more than 200,000 people along the way. For more routes, see the guide to cycling in Slovenia.

Where Šenčur comes from

People were living here in Roman times, as a sarcophagus found locally shows, and the records mention it in 1221. From 1238 it belonged to the Dominican monastery at Velesovo, now in the neighbouring municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem. The Baroque church of St George dates from 1747 and still has a stretch of the wall built against Turkish raids behind it. In the centre stands a monument to the potato and to Maria Theresa, since the harvests earned the area the nickname of potato country, and there’s an 18th-century house, the Bvagne. In 2006 it won bronze in the Entente Florale for smaller towns.

If you are short on time, see the best tours in Šenčur and pick one that fits your day.

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