Kumrovec and Veliki Tabor Castle

North-west of Zagreb lies Kumrovec village, renowned both as the best of Croatia’s museum-villages and as the birthplace of the father of communist Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito. The simple peasant house in which Tito was born was turned into a museum during his own lifetime, while the surrounding properties were rebuilt and restored in the ensuing decades to provide an example of what an early twentieth-century Zagorje village looked like. It’s just a short drive from here to one of the most impressive of the Zagorje castles, Veliki Tabor, whose imposing barrel-shaped bastions look down on the road from a grassy hilltop. Lunch in Gresna gorica agriculture, on the neighboring hill, overlooking the castle. Here you will hear about the legend of the tragic and forbidden love between the nobleman Friederich Of Celje and the beautiful plebeian girl.