The trail passes through four upper-Gorenjska municipalities, each of which has added its own small pot of honey to the story. The trail begins in the cradle of Carniolan beekeeping and Slovenian poetry, in picturesque Vrba, where you can visit the birth house of France Prešeren (1800-1849) – Slovenia’s most famous poet, whilst in nearby Breznica stands the apiary of the country’s greatest beekeeper, Anton Janša.
Radovljica is a town of museums and the old town centre is home to the Museum of Apiculture, which is located next to the Lectar Gingerbread Museum and Workshop, which preserves the tradition of making delightful Lectar gingerbread hearts. The trail then leads to Lesce – to the modern Beekeeping Education Centre of Gorenjska, which offers honey tastings and much more!
From Lesce off to Bled and then onwards toward Bohinj, both of which are not only icons of Slovenian tourism but for many years have also been home to numerous beekeepers. In Bled you can stop at a beehive where honey and honey products can be sampled, and then on to picturesque Bohinj where this honey journey ends with a visit to Hotel Kristal in Ribčev Laz, which produces its own in-house chocolate. Among the chocolate delights on offer, a speciality is the ‘čebelica’ cake (from the Slovene word for ‘bee’ – čebela), which is made from raw chocolate with honey and pollen from Bohinj’s flowering meadows.
Package itinerary
Day 1:
9.00 France Prešeren’s Birth House in Vrba, tasting home made ginger bread
10.00 A nice walk to Anton Janša’s Apinary, guided tour of the beehives and decorated beehive panels. Tickle your taste buds by tasting
honey-wine at the beehives.
11.00 The Museum of apiculture, Radovljica
12.00 Visit the Live Gingerbread Museum, Radovljica
13.00 Beekeeping Ambrožič, Bled, teasting honey, life of bees
17.00 visit Hotel Kristal, Bohinj, Chocolate Temple, teasting Čebelica
Contact of the provider:
Bled Tourist Board
Ljubljanska 27, SI – 4260 Bled
Phone: 00386 04 5780500
www.bled.si
