Planina pri Sevnici - Sveti Križ (above Planina pri Sevnici)

Access to the starting point:
a) Drive to Sevnica (to get here from Radeče, Mokronogo or Krško), then take the road in the direction of Planina pri Sevnici. When you reach the Petrol station located near Planina pri Sevnici, turn right in the direction of Montpreis and park in the large asphalt parking lot next to the cemetery just after the intersection.
b) Drive to Šentjur (to get here from Celje, the Štajerska motorway exit Dramlje or Šmarij pri Jelšah), then follow the signs for Kozje and Mountain pasture near Sevnica. At the end of Šentjur go right towards Planina pri Sevnici (slightly left Kozje and Podsreda). Continue mostly uphill, then when the road levels out and you see a Petrol station on the right hand side, located in the immediate vicinity of Planina pri Sevnici, go left towards Montpreis and then just after the crossroads park in the cemetery parking lot.

Path description:
From the cemetery parking lot, follow the asphalt road uphill to Montpreis, where you will see the first signs for Sveti Križ. Bear right (left access on the road), passing the company, and then follow the narrow asphalt road to a small crossroads, at which there is a sign.
Continue left here (straight ahead on a slightly longer path leading through a fairy forest), and a little further on at the last house along the tarmac road go right to cart track. Cart track soon splits, and we take the slightly left path, which passes an abandoned house on the right, and after it we quickly arrive at the foot of the Stations of the Cross, where the aforementioned path through the fairy forest joins from the right.
Continue along the stations of the cross, and with each serpentine path a better view opens up. Higher up, the path turns left and quickly climbs up a grassy slope to the Church of the Holy Cross, situated on a 730 m high hill.
Description and pictures refer to March 2022.

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