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Tourist Board
of Međimurje County
Ulica bana Josipa Jelačića 22 E
40000 Čakovec, Croatia, EU

Head office phone: +385 40 830 084
Info desk phone: +385 40 310 071
Email: [email protected]

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the green cradle of Croatia

Međimurje

Right between two rivers, the Mura and the Drava, there lies the lively green Međimurje. The hard-working people in the northernmost region in Croatia have shaped over the centuries the picturesque scenery into a lovely garden, a place for a comfortable life in harmony with nature.

Come and experience lush Međimurje!

flower garden of Croatia

If Croatia is the body, then Međimurje is its heart that beats with the power of untamed rivers. It breathes the freshness of hillsides and playful treetops. Its food comes from clean fields and gardens, its strength from apiaries. It drinks the divine nectar from its vineyards, and gets revitalized in the thermal waters that emerge from great depths onto the surface of land. It is a Croatian flower garden of unparalleled beauty, natural balance and cultivated community. A place of intimacy with heritage and acknowledgement of modern life, a lively haven of traditional continental cuisine skilfully fused with trendy charm. Međimurje. The northern gate of Croatia, which, once opened, enters your heart to be forever kept there as a fond memory of a unique ‘island’ between the two rivers.

Milestones in Međimurje

1203

the earliest known record of Međimurje - inter Muram et Dravam in the King Emeric‘s charter

1333

the forts in Štrigova and Čakovec are mentioned in King Carl Robert’s document

1473

King Matthias Corvinus sells Međimurje to Ivan Ernest Hamp

1546

Nicholas IV. Zrinski takes hold of of the fortresses Čakovec and Štrigova with the estates

1671

Petar Zrinski and Fran Krsto Frankopan are accused of high treason and executed, and their property is confiscated

1710

a great flood when the Drava river changed its course and bypassed Legrad, moving it to Podravina

1738

a strong earthquake hits Čakovec and its surroundings, damaging the fortress in Čakovec and the Zrinski mausoleum in Šenkovec

1791

Count Juraj Feštetić de Tolna buys the Čakovec estate

1848

– 1860 Međimurje is annexed to Croatia after the military campaign led by Ban Josip Jelačić

1860

the first railway line Kotoriba-Čakovec-Macinec is launched in Croatia

1920

the Treaty of Trianon is ratified, officially annexing Međimurje to the Croatian Kingdom

1923

Count Eugen Feštetić sells the Čakovec estate to the company Slavonija d.n.d.

1941

– 1945 military occupation of Međimurje by Hungary

1992

Međimurje receives the status of a county as a regional administration and self-government unit