Experience
Kurentovanje
Ptuj is a city where thousands of years of history, heritage and culture are intertwined. Kurentovanje takes the highest place among the most visited experiences, when the city is transformed into the largest open-air ethnographic museum of intangible cultural heritage. It is an excellent opportunity not only to see the largest international carnival festival in Slovenia, but also to experience the many experiences that the oldest Slovenian city has to offer.
Experience Kurentovanje
Ptuj is a city where thousands of years of history, heritage and culture are intertwined. Kurentovanje takes the highest place among the most visited experiences, when the city is transformed into the largest open-air ethnographic museum of intangible cultural heritage. It is an excellent opportunity not only to see the largest international carnival festival in Slovenia, but also to experience the many experiences that the oldest Slovenian city has to offer.
Kurent House
MEET THE MOST POPULAR AND NUMEROUS TRADITIONAL SLOVENIAN ETHNOGRAPHIC CARNIVAL CHARACTER
Learn about the kurent, the most popular and numerous traditional ethnographic carnival character in Slovenia, which can be found at the Ptujsko and Dravsko polje plains as well as in the Haloze and Slovenske gorice hills.
Using modern technologies, visitors can learn about the deep meaning of rituals that have been preserved from ancient times to the present day. You can explore the Kurent/Korant in an interactive, individualized and globally recognizable way, while the cultural heritage is presented in an experiential and innovative way, effectively preserving it for future generations.
OPENING HOURS
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday: from 12:00 to 18:00
The Kurent House is closed on Tuesdays.
Holidays: from 12:00 to 18:00
Available for up to 15 persons at a time.
BUY TICKETS
You can buy tickets online where available viewing times are also displayed. Tours take place every full hour and by appointment.
Available for up to 15 persons at a time.
You can check the availability of your preferred visit time online.
To buy tickets online click HERE.
CONTACT
+386 70 538 476 (during working hours of Kurent House)
kurentova.hisa@ptuj.si
Kurent House operates under the auspices of the Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO.
Sweet-Toothed Carnival
That the carnival season is a true celebration of culinary vices is confirmed by the fact that half a million donuts are crunched in Ptuj and the surrounding area during Kurentovanje. Loyal companions of the carnival are also the carnival fliers and mice. A very special culinary specialty, which has been revived in recent years by Ptuj caterers based on old recipes, is ti curent soup. It is also impossible to imagine the carnival season without traditional dishes such as roast beef, blood sausage, pickled meat with sauerkraut or turnips.
Top 5 Ptuj carnival delicacies
Kurent's plate
The carnival season in Ptuj is also the time of local kolins. Kurento's plate, on which roast pork, blood sausage or roast pork, roasted potatoes and cabbage reign supreme, combines all the wealth of traditional carnival flavors.
Homemade doughnuts
Ptuj caterers have been keeping the tradition of baking homemade carnival donuts during Kurentovanje for decades. The exquisite taste of this most delicious carnival snack is mainly hidden in the method of preparation, which remains a well-kept secret for most.
Mice
The sweet carnival trio also includes mice. It will be hard to resist the popular dessert offered by the culinary stalls of Ptuj during the carnival season while walking around the city.
Carnival flanks
Whether they are brittle or leavened - none of them will leave you indifferent. Along with doughnuts, flancats are considered one of the most popular carnival desserts, for which there is always room after a hearty lunch.
Kurent's soup
The original recipe for making kurent soup is more than two hundred years old, but it was revived from oblivion by Ptuj taverns and restaurants. The fullness of its taste is hidden in many ingredients, among which, according to the Ptuj tradition, smoked meat and grated porridge should not be missing.
Sweet-Toothed Carnival
That the carnival season is a true celebration of culinary vices is confirmed by the fact that half a million donuts are crunched in Ptuj and the surrounding area during Kurentovanje. Loyal companions of the carnival are also the carnival fliers and mice. A very special culinary specialty, which has been revived in recent years by Ptuj caterers based on old recipes, is ti curent soup. It is also impossible to imagine the carnival season without traditional dishes such as roast beef, blood sausage, pickled meat with sauerkraut or turnips.
Top 5 Ptuj carnival delicacies
Kurent's plate
The carnival season in Ptuj is also the time of local kolins. Kurento's plate, on which roast pork, blood sausage or roast pork, roasted potatoes and cabbage reign supreme, combines all the wealth of traditional carnival flavors.
Homemade doughnuts
Ptuj caterers have been keeping the tradition of baking homemade carnival donuts during Kurentovanje for decades. The exquisite taste of this most delicious carnival snack is mainly hidden in the method of preparation, which remains a well-kept secret for most.
Mice
The sweet carnival trio also includes mice. It will be hard to resist the popular dessert offered by the culinary stalls of Ptuj during the carnival season while walking around the city.
Carnival flanks
Whether they are brittle or leavened - none of them will leave you indifferent. Along with doughnuts, flancats are considered one of the most popular carnival desserts, for which there is always room after a hearty lunch.
Kurent's soup
The original recipe for making kurent soup is more than two hundred years old, but it was revived from oblivion by Ptuj taverns and restaurants. The fullness of its taste is hidden in many ingredients, among which, according to the Ptuj tradition, smoked meat and grated porridge should not be missing.
Give yourself a memory of Kurentovanje
In the Tourist Information Center in the center of the city, among the diverse range of unique products about Ptuj, you can also find a rich selection of souvenirs on the topic of the tradition of curenting.
Among them are handkerchiefs that can be tied to the belt with a curent, artificially made curent caps made of identical natural materials, key chains with a curent bell, magnets with the image of a curent and a special curent wine Mistik.
Parking lots
During the Kurentovanje period between February 3 and 13, 2024, it is possible to park in the following parking lots:
Parking lots for cars:
- Parking lot Zadružni trg P+R, Zadružni trg 15
- Potrčeva cesta parking lot, Potrčeva cesta 6
- Macadam parking lot, Ob Drava (near Pomaranča)
Parking lots for buses:
- Parking lot Zadružni trg P+R, Zadružni trg 15
- Macadam parking lot, Ob Drava (near Pomaranča)
The list of parking lots will be updated.
PUBLIC NOTICE OF TEMPORARY AND COMPLETE CLOSURES OF STATE AND LOCAL ROADS
Due to the safe and unobstructed execution of events within the framework of Kurentovanija, they will be at parades and other public events temporary partial or complete closures of national and local roads and closures of city streets, squares and entrances.
