Ludbreg - center of the world

LUDBREG – CENTER OF THE WORLD! 

 

Old Romans, appreciating the good geographic position, built Castrum Iovia in the place of today’s Ludbreg.

It was a town equipped with complete infrastructure, a roman forum and termae (baths), which quickly became an economic and transportation center, and upon whose foundations Ludbreg as we know it today was later built.

From that time origins the legend saying that from this place "rims of the world” were drawn, and all the large world centers built upon them… 

Legend was later confirmed by a frequent guest of the Ludbreg Restoration Center and an admirer of the picturesque town, a Suisse national named Erasmus Weddingen: playing with a map and a caliper, he managed to draw several rounds on the map, using Ludbreg as a center.

What he noticed was that on each of those rounds there lays a city or more of them, not only within Croatia, but all over the world.

Nearest proofs of the legend are towns and cities closest to Ludbreg: Varazdin, Koprivnica, Cakovec, Varazdinske Toplice… all of them some 20 kilometers away from Ludbreg. 

By examining Ludbreg’s latitude and longitude, Weddingen found the town’s antipodes, the small south-pacific island near New Zealand by the name of – Antipodes.

Creation of that island find it’s explanation in another one of many Ludbreg’s legends: the one about Ludbrega… 

Except for being famous for her beauty and viticultural skills, Ludberga was a woman of supernatural abilities, who entered the legend by banishing from Ludbreg the Devil himself, and it was that act which later made her the patroness of Ludbreg Township, along the St. Florian. According to the legend, the vehemence by which Ludberga rammed the Devil into the ground was so intense that it caused an explosion on the opposite side of the planet – even today the small island of Antipodes remains in proof of the event, and in Ludbreg, at the very spot of the dramatic occurrence, to this day there is a well of blazing water. 

Ludbreg is a well known sanctuary, established 500 hundred years ago to the honor of the Precious Blood of Christ, whose miraculous appearance occurred in the chapel of the Holy Cross, within the Batthyany castle.

Following the Christian tradition, every place in the world connected in any way with Jesus Christ is to be referred to as "the center of the world”, and since the famous chalice containing the Holy Blood of Christ remains in Ludbreg even today, it is only justified to consider Ludbreg the world’s center. T

o the end, being the "center of the world” Ludbreg is the place where the four basic elements combine: earth, water, fire and air.

People of Ludbreg, being the descendants of the legendary Ludbrega, and thus excellent wine-growers, make this combination magical by assign in to it the fifth element: the sparkling wine of Ludbreg’s hills… 

 

And finally, in the center of the world are united all four elements of life: fire, water, earth and air.

Beside that, the good fifth element: the excellent wine from Ludbreg, which is allowed to flow only in the center of the world on April 1 of the fountains! 

 

30.03.2016 Arrival, Welcome drink upon arival

 

31.03.2016 Guided sightseeing of Varaždin

 

01.04.2016 Guided sightseeing of the Trakošćan castle and drive further to Ludbreg, sightseeing, wine tasting with a snack, attendance of the Centre of the World Day

02.04.2016 Guided sightseeing of Zagreb

03.04.2016 Homeward journey 

 

• 4 x breakfast a buffet in hotel Trakoščan 4*

• 4 x dinner a buffet in Hotel Trakoščan 4*

• Entrance fee to the Trakošćan castle

• Tour leader accompanying your group on all the excursions

• Attendance of the Center of the World Day

• Wine tasting of local wine sorts with traditional snack

• Guided sightseeing of Varaždin and Zagreb