Petrinje - Socerb Castle

Access to the starting point:
a) From the Ljubljana - Koper motorway, take the Kozina exit and then continue along the old road towards Koper. When you arrive in Petrinje (a small settlement on the right side of the main road, with the church of St. Boštjan on the left side of the road), turn off the main road and then look for a suitable parking space (there are no parking spaces in the settlement).
b) From the motorway Koper - Ljubljana, take the exit Kastelec and then turn right towards Ljubljana, Kozina and Podgorje. There are two more crossroads, where you follow the route to Kozina, and when you reach the old road Koper - Ljubljana, follow it to the top of the hill in Černokal, and then the road will lay down and take you a little further to the small settlement Petrinje, which is located on the left side of the main road (and on the right side of the road there is the church of St. Boštjana). Turn off the main road here (you can turn left or right) and then find a suitable parking space. There are no parking spaces at the starting point.

Path description:
When you enter the village, continue left and walk to the power line pole where the road ends. Continue straight ahead, walking along the road towards Koper for a few minutes, and then turn right off the path that led you through the hay field into the lane of the low forest. The forest is quickly replaced by lane of bushes, in the middle of which there is a well-traced, but often somewhat overgrown path. After a few minutes, you reach an asphalt road, which you follow to the right, and walk along it to a crossroads from which you can see the nearby motorway, which just here passes out of the Kastelec tunnel.
At this crossroads, go left and then, after a few 10 steps, right onto the marked footpath. The path ahead leads us again through overgrown meadows and lane of low forest, and then leads us to a narrow dirt road, which we follow to the left. The road is followed without any major changes in elevation, or at first it climbs slightly, but soon we are joined from the left by the path from Črný Kalo and Kastelec (also the described paths from the starting points of Varda and Žlebinje).
Continue straight ahead in the route Socerb, following the wider macadam road that leads through the karst landscape. A few minutes further on, we reach an asphalt road, which we quickly leave, as the markings lead us slightly to the right, onto a path that takes us past Sveta jama (the exit to the cave is locked) and back to the asphalt road in a few minutes. When you reach the road again, follow it all the way to the Socerb castle, which offers a fine view.
Description and pictures refer to the situation in 2016 (June).

On the way: Sveta jama (415m)

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