Lukavec Old Town, Lukavec

Lukavec Old Town is located in Lukavec, in the middle of Turopolje, not far from Velika Gorica in Zagreb County. It is of interest to visitors as a kaštel (fortified manor) connected with the tradition of the Turopolje nobility.

On the site of an old wooden fortress from 1422, a new wooden fortress was built, in which in 1612 the first Turopolje assembly (spravišće), a gathering of the Turopolje nobility, was held. The present Lukavec came into being on the same site in the middle of the 18th century. It is a four-sided Renaissance kaštel with a rectangular courtyard and corner towers and a tall entrance tower, beneath which on the first floor is the Chapel of St Lucy. Lukavec never served as a residence: it had a defensive function, and the traditional assembly of the nobility was held in it. In terms of typology and architecture it holds a significant place among related buildings.

Lukavec Old Town is a protected cultural good and is entered in the Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia under the code Z-1722. It belongs to secular architectural heritage.

Photo: Zeljko.filipin, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
Data: Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia (Ministry of Culture and Media), Open Licence; coordinates: Wikidata (CC0).