Samobor is a picturesque town with a preserved old town center, with a long excursion and tourist tradition. A long history, rich cultural heritage and attractive surroundings ensure it a significant place in all Croatian tourist offers. It has long been perhaps the most popular excursion destination for the people of Zagreb, who come here to enjoy its unique charm, natural beauty, and popular Samobor restaurants, inns and picnic spots.
More about citySamobor is a picturesque town with a preserved old town center, with a long excursion and tourist tradition. A long history, rich cultural heritage and attractive surroundings ensure it a significant place in all Croatian tourist offers. It has long been perhaps the most popular excursion destination for the people of Zagreb, who come here to enjoy its unique charm, natural beauty, and popular Samobor restaurants, inns and picnic spots.
Cultural and historical heritage is an important part of Samobor's tourist offer. Samobor is a tourist town, a museum town, with a long tourist tradition dating back to the beginning of the 19th century. The city has an extremely favorable geographical position for tourists and is abundant in natural and anthropogenic attractions, and tourist traffic is constantly increasing. The concentration of cultural monuments in the inner city core is extremely high. Samobor is host to numerous cultural and entertainment events, and is also recognizable by its traditional specialties. Samoborski fašnik is the most important, most visited and most famous Samobor traditional event, also the largest such event in the continental part of Croatia. Fašnik symbolizes the banishment of winter, which should be replaced by spring, and the renewal of nature and fertility a new life.
Samobor has two important gastronomic traditions - something local must be offered and the plate must be full. Gourmets have long recognized Samobor and know what to expect. Unpretentious, indigenous, tasty, seasoned with a good atmosphere. Samobor was never closed to good influences. One thing was learned from the Germans, something else from the French, the Viennese school brought something else, the Hungarians a fourth, and today Samobor can boast of an extremely rich and diverse gastronomic offer - garlic bread, Samobor salami, mustard, bermet, mushrooms, pasta, Samobor cutlet, kotlovina, "Rudarska greblica" - protected designation of geographical origin (PGI), doughnut, kremšnita. And in addition to sarme, štrukle, fillets, buncek with greens, blood sausage, venison, boar, schnenokle, flower dumplings - and that's just the traditional part of the offer! Whether you visit a restaurant, an inn or a rural family farm, you will probably have the most good and full in Samobor is very large. And if the local mood matches, you'll end up singing along with the owner and staff.
In the wider Samobor region, we can highlight the Nature Park Žumberak-Samoborsko gorje, Tepec, the rivers Gradna and Bregana, the Cerinski vir, the thermal springs at the location of Šmidhen, the Grgosov cave, the Fairy Caves, the botanical garden of medicinal plants in Suban, the educational trail Otruševec, endemic plants of the Samobor Mountains, wild animal life of the Samobor mountains, ponds... Samobor has a rich tradition of sports life and abounds in recreational facilities. Hiking, cycling, martial arts, football, tennis, dancing, swimming, running, fishing, educational trails are just some of the many possibilities. The dilemma of every tourist who comes to Samobor is to see the city and its surroundings on foot, by mountain bike or by bike. The culture of mountaineering is very long, and in the last few years cyclotourism has also been developing intensively. Seven cycling routes have been arranged for every taste and fitness level, with a total length of 150 kilometers, and they all start and end at Samobor Square.
