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The
Klopotec Kapela Tourist Office was founded in the year 1996 and has
90
members. The Office focuses its activities on various tourist offer
fields, especially preserving the natural cultural heritage and historical
customs. It
served as the initiator of the revival of the Legend of Attila which
was passed down verbally from generation to generation. For this purpose
office members built Attila's footpath in 1997 and also published
propaganda material in Slovene and German. Attila's footpath project
was also successfully carried out under the Phare programme in 2003.
Thus the footpath has been broadened to the Radenci centre and incorporated
into the municipality tourist offer with new markings, information
material and resting places for visitors. Every year a walk along this
footpath is organized to celebrate the municipality festival.
During the year the office traditionally organizes many tourist shows,
like
village markets during the Tri srca marathon at the mountain expedition,
raising the rattle (klopotec) on August 15th, and shows linked with
work in the
vineyard in autumn.
Office
members have been setting up an interesting tourist spot in the vicinity
of the Plague spot on Kapelski Vrh since 2001. They have built a restored
vine
press, a wood vine barrel with a volume of 6100 litres, planted a sample
vineyard plantation, and in 2004 they also planted an offspring of
the oldest
vine from Maribor and built an entertainment area. Office members pay
special
attention to taking care of the environment with cleaning activities
and
planting flowers in public areas. During the autumn holidays the office
prepared interesting culinary exhibitions. Based on the culinary recipes
gathered from the outskirts of Slovenske gorice the Office published
a book by
Marija Fras, a long time vice-president of the Office, with the title "Jedi
naših babic" ("Our Grandmothers's Dishes").
Office
activities during the year are enriched with lectures on various topics:
culinary art, ethnology, history, agriculture and gardening. Office
members
take part in inter-office meetings, and when it comes to nurturing
cultural
heritage they take active part in outdoor meetings.
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