Stubicki Golubovec Castle
- Donja Stubica

This is one of the most valuable Croatian castles of the late Baroque period and due to its great architectural, historic and environmental value it was declared a cultural and natural monument of national interest. The castle is situated in a beautiful natural framework of park and park-forest, few minutes from the street which leads from Gornja Stubica to Donja Stubica. There is no table on the street that would make you pay your attention to it. So you could say, it is kind of hidden in the forest, and you can't really see it by chance...

A park space next to the castle was formed at the beginning of the 19th century, which today consists of two units in terms of space and composition: the park around the castle and the park-forest.

The park-forest around it is kind of "wildlife park", without wild animals, but the plants and the trees and other animals are protected. Although, the forest right around it is more a mixture of "well-tended" park of a cultivated forest of American pine and partly a wild forest of pedunculate oak and hornbeam that looks kind of... very inspiring. If viewed as a composition, this castle is located in beautiful natural framework of the park which support and connects the park with the park-forest and surrounding landscape. In terms of scenography, the forest was the eastern curtain of Vilinske poljana, from where there was a magnificent view of Medvednica and its Stubica slopes.

The castle is in use, by "Kajkaviana", kind of cultural institution which takes care of cultural inheritance of kaikavian regions (kajkavian is an old croatian dialect / originally one of three parts of the croatian language, and is spoken in the northern parts of Croatia).

More About Stubički Golubovec Castle - The construction of the castle was commissioned around 1800 by Lady Regina Domjanić, who became Countess Drašković by marriage. However, as soon as 1804, her heirs sold it to the bishop Maksimilian Vrhovac. The bishop renovated the castle and also bought the nearby estate Donji Golubovec, a manor with smaller estate buildings. He expanded the manor by adding other buildings and made it a grange of the Golubovec castle. After his death, the castle changed owners and went through a period of stagnation, until it became the property of the Baron Levin Rauch who renovated and modernised it.

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