Oršić Castle

The Baroque Oršić Palace, constructed in 1756 on the site of an older medieval fortress by Count Krsto Oršić and his wife Josipa, neé Zichy, houses today a historical museum, dedicated to Croatian-Slovene Peasants’ Revolt of 1573, whereas an exhibition in the baroque court chapel, consecrated to St. Xavier, offers an overview of the sacred art of Hrvatsko zagorje from the 16th to the middle of the 19th century. Oršić Palace was a residence of Oršić family the until 1924.

In the cellar of the castle there is an exhibition on "Viticulture in the Hrvatsko zagorje region". The castle is surrounded by a decorative parterre garden, as well as a landscaped park containing local and exotic plant species, as well as a monument dedicated to Matija Gubec (1548 – 1573), who was a Croatian peasant and the leader of the Peasants’ Revolt in Croatia and Slovenia.

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