PPAC: Prekmurje 4. – Vinarium Tower

My one-day Pannonian tour from three years ago continues with a tower. The art of today’s post is in its architecture and the scenery of four countries visible from the top.

I hope blobber Marsha, our host with a most realistic torn sock in her post, won’t mind too much if I include architecture among arts for this series. It allows me to post photos that I haven’t posted yet, all taken in one day in the summer of 2019.

This is how the day started, with the Vinarium Tower in Lendava. The castle – the venue of the first three posts in this series – came after the tower. We met with my friend Sabina, who I hadn’t seen in decades (Facebook reunites people again!), under her home and greeted her mother, and then we were off to the tower.

The Vinarium was built in 2015. The design, which you will see explained on the board in the gallery, is the work of Slovenian architects Oskar Virag and Iztok Rajšter.

Its highest point is just above 50 metres and from the viewing platform a bit lower down you can see four countries: Austria to the north, Hungary to the east, Croatia to the south, and more of Slovenia to the west. Wiki says that it is the third most visited tourist attraction of Slovenia, but I wouldn’t bet on that. Maybe the third for which you have to pay.

So yes, it’s not free to climb it (by stairs or lift) but it’s free to watch it from the outside. We did both. Welcome to join me.

Hi, Sabina and mom! What an excellent day we spent together. (The umbrella is of the other Slovenian beer. Union has dragons.)

Here we go. The bottom looks like this.

The poster of the exhibition that awaited us. Mind the dog.

Hungarian hollow pastries were still closed. (Never had one.)

Look at this. Have you ever played this game?

They threw the sticks really well!

I clearly wished to look under its skirt.

You could tell that it was only four years old then.

The view from the lift.

Friends since journalism studies 30 years ago. Photo: amore.

The height of the viewing platform, 42 m, and the above the sea level is almost 345 m.

Dunaj or Wien or Vienna is 183 kilometres that way.

Pretty and so green for the summer.

All vineyards. Slovenia has excellent wine.

A little doorfie in a window when we came back down.

The last look up from an outdoor bar.

Well, it doesn’t look exactly like this.

The Vinarium Tower from a distance.

Which is where I found this door that couldn’t wait for a Thursday.

For Photographing Public Art Challenge (PPAC) hosted by Marsha at Always Write

This day in my blogging history

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  2016: Roman Thursday Doors with two English bookshops

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  2019: Birding for beginners with sparrows

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  Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. 

  -Kevin Kruse

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  2020: Reddy or not, here come 30 red photos

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  2021: The first Thursday Doors post from Viterbo on the last ordinary day