SPLAVAR

Brežice is located "by the edge" above the confluence of the Sava and Krka rivers at an altitude of 162 meters above sea level. The town developed around the Brežice Castle due to its favorable strategic location in the Sava Valley at the transition from Croatia to "Kranjska" and Styria. Brežice received city rights in the 14th century and eventually became an important trade and craft center of Posavina... Brežice is connected with the past wood trade by water because of the crews of rafters who loaded wood on tied rafts along the Sava. On their way from the Savinja Valley along Savinja and Sava to Sremska Mitrovica and Belgrade and along the Danube to Romania, rafters also stopped in Brežice. They sold part of the spruce and fir wood to wood merchants (innkeepers), refreshed themselves with food and drink in the rafters' inns and spent the night here, stocking up on meat and wine for the next water journey to the south.

Also known as: Hotel Splavar