The married couple Vesna and Danijel Povše in Dole pri Litiji collaboratively create unique wooden decorative products and practical wooden items for daily household use. Their wooden serving boards, trays, bowls, boxes, mortars and pestles, and other products, made from local raw materials and coated with natural oil or beeswax, are now available for purchase on virtually all continents. During a visit, a practical demonstration of woodturning and shaping wooden products is also possible directly in their carpentry workshop. They have also received the highest quality certification, the Srce Slovenije (Heart of Slovenia) Collective Brand Certificate, for many of their wooden products.

Košinov Mill is located in the gorge of the Bistrica stream and has a long tradition of grain milling. There were once as many as 22 mills operating on the Bistrica, but today the only one still functional is Košinov Mill, which was built around 1700 and at that time belonged to the Turn Manor near Gabrovka. The Jesenšek family diligently preserves its tradition. They invite private groups, as well as school and kindergarten groups, for a guided tour of the mill, featuring a presentation of milling and the miller’s profession, a viewing of grain being ground by millstones and water power, and a tasting of homemade tea. They will introduce you to the miller’s profession and the process of grain milling.

The Valvasor’s Hunting Lodge in Neudorf or Zavrh is a reminder of former aristocratic times and was considered the second seat of the Valvasor family, a famous noble house that, in addition to the Neudorf manor, also owned a mill in the Sopot valley. Janez Vajkard Valvasor, the polymath and author of The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola (Slava vojvodine Kranjske), who lived in the 17th century, lived in the mansion for a time and included it in his noble coat of arms. During World War II, the inhabitants of Zavrh were expelled, numerous valuables disappeared from the manor, and it served as a German outpost. The legacy is now preserved by the successors of Franc Bostič, who purchased the estate at the beginning of the 19th century. In the mansion, you can view the renovated hunting and knight’s room, a preserved statue of St. Roch, and a tunnel that is believed to have led from the manor down to the Sopot valley.