Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Grajski trg/Castle square, Maribor

One of the oldest squares in Maribor


Grajski trg (pronounced as "Grais·key terg") or Castle square (formerly Floriansplatz) is an old medieval square in Maribor, named after the Maribor town castle, which is partly located on the square. At the time, when Maribor was still surrounded by a defense wall, the square was located at the northeastern part of town close to the Graz gate (Graška vrata), that stood on the neighboring Freedom square (Trg svobode). The Castle square today is one of the most vibrant parts of Maribor's old center. You have a hotel, shops, restaurants and many cafés, where especially in summer, people of Maribor like to hang out. In the castle is the Regional Museum Maribor, while in the center of the square you can admire the St. Florian column, a monument dedicated to the patron saint of firefighters. It was placed here in the year 1700 after a devastating fire from a year before. It's a popular meeting point today.

Let me show you some photos from 2010:

Hotel Orel and some clothes shops, that opened in recent years.

The Castle square from north to south. The green building at the end is Naskov dvor.

The column of St. Florian from 1700 (photos from August 2010).

Castle square on a November morning. You can see many cafés already opening.

If you visit Maribor's Castle square, you will see these historically important buildings:

1 Maribor castle (Mariborski grad)
2 Column of St. Florian (Sv. Florijan)
3 Scherbaumhof (Scherbaumov dvorec)
4 Nasko manor (Naskov dvorec)
5 Hotel Orel

[My MARIBOR page][My SLOVENIA page][Info source: Sloveniainfo][All photos by MKL, 2010]

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