Ponikva/Hotunje - Sveta Marija Magdalena (Dramlje) (via Sveta Uršula)

Access to the starting point:
a) By train. . . Ponikva railway station.
b) By car. . . Leave the motorway at exit Dramlje and continue towards Šentjur. After three kilometres at the Dole roundabout, continue in the direction of Ponikva and after a total of approximately seven kilometres reach the railway line. You can park safely in front of the level crossing. The railway station is on the other side of the line and a little further to the right.

Path description:
Follow the asphalt road along the stream towards Zagaj pri Ponikvi. After one and a half kilometres, the asphalt surface turns to macadam and you follow it through the forest. Soon you will reach a small settlement of houses and, if well marked, continue through the yard of one of the homesteads to a meadow path. The grass path becomes a forest path and then leads along several ponds and through the forest to a chapel. From the chapel, continue through Razbor, turn left at the first crossroads and soon right downhill under a road viaduct, where you cross a small watercourse, and cross over to the other side of the motorway. Continue across the meadow, through the farmyard of the farmhouse and by the wooden horse corral reach the more concrete Vodulee. From the flat part of Vodul, there is a climb along an asphalt road and then along narrower paths surrounded by vineyards/walled houses. Higher up, a crossroads is reached, with St Ursula on the right and the home of PD Dramlje in a former forestry. Of course, due to the proximity of a good hundred metres, we make a tour and continue down or left from the crossroads into the valley behind Dramlje.
On the asphalt road, which is in a steady decline and is easy to follow, we soon reach the Church of St. Ilija on the right side of the path. Centuries ago the church was the central parish church and the seat of the Dramlje parish. Today it has been beautifully restored and is the pride of the area between the Celje Hills and Konjiška Gora/Žička Carthusian Monastery.
After a short visit, continue downhill for a good hundred metres and at the crossroads turn left to the centre Dramlje or Svetelka, to the right is the asphalt road to Pletovarje or Straža na gora (over the pass also the Žička Carthusian). After a good hundred metres turn right again to the centre above the school or the NOB monument. . . by the cooperative shop to the left and the cemetery to the right. Further on, you reach the destination, which is visible from afar.

On the way: Razborški ribniki (330m), Sv. Uršula nad Dramljami (464m), Sv. Ilija (Spodnje Dramlje) (304m)

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Partizanska bolnica Zima (1 h)

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