Zgornje Poljčane - Gril's chapel on Boč

Access to the starting point:
a) From the route of Maribor, leave the motorway at Slovenski Bistrica, where signs direct you to Poljčane. Continue through the centre of Poljčane in the direction of Zgornje Poljčane, where you can park in the centre of the village, a suitable place is the parking space next to the cemetery.
b) From the direction of Ljubljana, leave the motorway at Slovenske Konjice and drive through Žič, Loč and Zbelovego to Poljčane. At the crossroads, turn right in the direction of Zgornje Poljčane for a few hundred metres, where you can park in the centre of the village; a suitable place is the parking space next to the cemetery.

Path description:
After a short visit to the centre of Zgornje Poljčane, continue across the Bela stream by the parish church, slightly up the road. On the left side of the path you reach the entrance to the church, with a relief of two Romans on the facade. After the visit, continue left towards Podboč along the asphalt road, also the Formila cycle path. Soon you reach the pleasant, small settlement of Podboč and to the left along the path the Černogova yew tree and a fountain restored by the locals.
Continue right up the road, now entering the Boč & Plešivec Landscape Park. The asphalt surface turns into a forest road. The view to the left is also a view lower down to the surroundings of Poljčany and the bed of the flooded river Dravinja between fields and meadows. The road turns into a forest and soon reaches a grassy plateau where the road is laid.
On the grassy plain there is a small warehouse with a field on the right and vineyards on the left. Continue through the forest again and the road winds pleasantly left, right. . . At the end of the flat part, continue right up the forest road, while the road from Studenice joins sharply from the left. . .
Follow the forest road and at the first major crossroads/fork continue to the right, the road to Makoli leads off to the left. Continue right along the road to reach the log cabin of the hunters of LD Poljčane on Golnik.
Continue along the road, which levels out for a few metres. After a short flat area, continue ascending and soon reach a crossroads where you turn left onto a narrow forest road, and to the right the path continues towards the tower at Boč. Following the narrow forest road between Kisovec to the left and Drevesnica to the right, you soon reach the 645-metre high pass above Formila. Continue downwards, Formila is already in sight to the right of us, soon joined by the marked mountain path from Makoli on the left.
Formila is reached and there is a short extension to the crossroads, left for the partisan hospital, Gavez, Grillo's chapel, Plešivec. . . and right for the mountain lodge at Boč. The crossroads is also the contact with the Styrian - Zagorje or ,,B,, - Brother trail.
At the crossroads, continue left along the forest road and after a good hundred metres, turn left slightly below the route of the road to reach the intermediate destination of the route - the Partisan Hospital at Formila/Boč. It is still well hidden although it lies directly next to the road. The wooden sign with the inscription is on a trunk, but unfortunately it has also been removed several times, knocked to the ground and so on. After a short visit to a point along the trail, continue along the forest road for a few hundred metres and at the first turning to the right, continue along the forest path. There is no direction sign at the turn-off, but there is an easy-to-follow mountain path through a mixed deciduous and partly coniferous forest. During the growing season there is a lot of hellebores.
Soon you reach a forest road opposite a small football field and turn left. Continue along the hunters' lodge of the Rogaška Slatina LD on the right and the Gavez homestead on the left along the path. The asphalt road from Rogaška Slatina soon joins from the right. Continue higher along the forest road, the route signs are also helpful and after a few hundred metres along a disused forestry ramp, continue right again to a crossroads with signs. To the left, or higher up, the path branches off towards Ložně or Donački Gora, while we continue to the right and after a few metres of flat ground we continue our descent. The path, pleasant in the embrace of the forest and crossing the forest road further on, continues under the Gril hill through a small meadow clearing. The path is somewhere in a steady descent and soon we pass onto a grassy meadow. A few more steps and the goal of today's route is reached. . . the Grill Chapel on Boč.

On the way: Formila na Boču (624m), Partizanska bolnica na Formili/Boču (630m)

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