The Villa in the Church Square

In the vicinity of the Parish Church of St. Catherine, the statues of St. Florian, Stephen I of Hungary and Anton Martin Slomšek, the former Bishop of Maribor, is a neoclassical villa that was built in the second half of the 19th century. It is an excellent example of a rich bourgeois home. The villa is connected to the sad love story between a Jewish girl and a Catholic priest. You can read about it in the novel by Ferdo Godina, titled “White Daffodils” (Bele tulpike).