Suggested walking route
3 stops in walking order
- Distance
- 2.37 km
- Walking
- 28 min
- Visits
- 4 h
- Difficulty
- Moderate walk
- 1Krapina Neanderthal Museum
Museum
An architecturally striking museum built into the very hillside where in 1899 Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger unearthed the largest and best-preserved collection of Neanderthal remains in the world. Walk-through dioramas make Neanderthal life vivid — one of Europe's best palaeoanthropology museums.
~2 h at this stop
- 2Hušnjakovo Neanderthal Site
Archaeological
The actual sandstone rockshelter where in 1899 palaeontologist Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger excavated the Krapina Neanderthals — the richest single Neanderthal site in the world.
~1 h at this stop
- 3Jerusalem Chapel, Trški Vrh
Church
The pilgrimage chapel of Our Lady of Jerusalem crowns Trški Vrh above Krapina — a baroque jewel painted inside from floor to ceiling by Anton Lerchinger in 1780. Ex-voto plaques cover the outer walls; the hilltop belvedere looks out across the whole Krapina valley to Trakošćan on a clear day.
~1 h at this stop