Vineyard roads, family cellars, quiet villages and one of Croatia’s most distinctive wine landscapes.
Where the hills
pour into the glass.
Come for Pušipel and the views. Stay for slow lunches, cellar conversations, woodland roads and the silence between villages.
Twenty kilometres north of Čakovec, the land begins to fold into vineyard-covered hills. Štrigova is small enough to feel intimate and rich enough to deserve a journey of its own.
The signatures of Štrigova
Not a checklist. A landscape to move through slowly — one glass, one hill and one table at a time.
Mađerkin Breg
Climb above the vines to a 27-metre lookout where the horizon can stretch across five countries on a clear day.
Pušipel & the Wine Road
Around thirty family wineries sit within a compact hill country shaped by generations of viticulture.
St Jerome & the hill villages
Baroque towers, local speech, popevka songs and villages stitched together by vineyards and orchards.
A wine landscape before it is a wine list.
Štrigova’s story is written in slopes. Vineyards curve around Sveti Urban, Železna Gora, Banfi and neighbouring hamlets, while family cellars turn the continental climate into bright, precise wines. Pušipel is the signature name to know — lively in its fresher expressions, deeper and more layered when given time.
Enter the wine roadLocal food does not perform. It belongs here.
Međimurska gibanica, meso z tiblice, turoš, pumpkin seed oil and seasonal produce make sense because they come from the same gardens, fields and forests as the view outside the window. The pleasure is in pairing them with the wines grown a few bends away.
Taste Štrigova
A weekend measured in hills, not kilometres.
Arrival through the vineyards
Start in Štrigova village, visit St Jerome’s Church, continue to a cellar on the Wine Road and finish the afternoon at Mađerkin Breg as the light softens over the hills.
Walk, taste, linger
Take a morning cycling or walking route through vineyard country, discover the story of Pušipel, then let lunch become the main event. Keep the final hours deliberately unplanned.
Four seasons, four moods
Spring
Fresh green vines, clear walking weather and quiet roads.
Summer
Long evenings, cellar terraces, concerts and vineyard events.
Autumn
Harvest colour, richer tables and the landscape at its most cinematic.
Winter
Bare vines, cellar warmth, Advent on the hills and a slower rhythm.
“Štrigova is not a place to consume. It is a place to settle into.”
Stories from the wine hills
Why Pušipel belongs to Štrigova
Štrigova sits at the heart of Upper Međimurje’s vineyard country. The regional Wine Road brings together around thirty family-run wineries in a remarkably compact landscape. Here, …
The view from Mađerkin Breg
Mađerkin Breg is Štrigova’s defining viewpoint. The wooden-and-steel tower rises 27 metres above a vineyard hill near Robadje. Reaching the rooftop platform mea…
A slow weekend in Upper Međimurje
One day is enough to see the headline sights. Two nights are better if you want to understand the destination. Štrigova rewards travellers who leave room betwee…
Come north. Slow down. Stay for the second glass.
Use Strigova.com as your independent editorial guide to the wine hills of Međimurje — what to see, what to taste and how to build a weekend that feels longer than it is.
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