Velika planina
Nearby Ljubljana and only few kilometres from the town Kamnik is located the bottom station of the cable car to Velika planina.
The cable car to Velika planina takes you amongst the green pastures of the mountain plateau in the heart of the Kamnik Alps. To those, who are more active, the mountain offers ideal possibilities for hiking and various mountain-cycling tours.
We recommend that you walk to the historic and well preserved herdsmen's huts. They are one of the few settlements of this type left in Europe. Their unique architecture (they are covered with wooden shingles that almost touch the ground) became a sort of a symbol of this mountain plateau and it attracts numerous visitors all year round. Feel the simple way of the herdsmen's life and taste their dairy products.
Cheese »trnič«
Unique for Velika planina is a special type of cheese called trnič. Trnič is a pear-shaped hard cheese produced on Velika planina, Mala planina and Gojška planina in the Kamnik-Savinja Alps. Made from cottage cheese, cream and salt, Trnič is decorated with special ornaments that are stamped into the cheese with relief carved wooden sticks or strips, i.e. seals. It is used in the daily diet, usually as an extra treat to the dishes.
Nearby Ljubljana and only few kilometres from the town Kamnik is located the bottom station of the cable car to Velika planina.
The cable car to Velika planina takes you amongst the green pastures of the mountain plateau in the heart of the Kamnik Alps. To those, who are more active, the mountain offers ideal possibilities for hiking and various mountain-cycling tours.
We recommend that you walk to the historic and well preserved herdsmen's huts. They are one of the few settlements of this type left in Europe. Their unique architecture (they are covered with wooden shingles that almost touch the ground) became a sort of a symbol of this mountain plateau and it attracts numerous visitors all year round. Feel the simple way of the herdsmen's life and taste their dairy products.
Cheese »trnič«
Unique for Velika planina is a special type of cheese called trnič. Trnič is a pear-shaped hard cheese produced on Velika planina, Mala planina and Gojška planina in the Kamnik-Savinja Alps. Made from cottage cheese, cream and salt, Trnič is decorated with special ornaments that are stamped into the cheese with relief carved wooden sticks or strips, i.e. seals. It is used in the daily diet, usually as an extra treat to the dishes.20
Velika planina, Kamnik, Slovenia