Velika Polana
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Velika Polana is a town and a municipality
in Slovenia
.
It has been officially designated a "stork
village" (i.e., a settlement with 10 or more storks’ nests). It was also the home of the Slovene writer Miško Kranjec
. The house where he was born (which is also the tourist information office) can be visited. The village is surrounded by fenland and sunflowers, pumpkin, and wheat fields. The best way to explore the area is by cycling or walking the numerous trails.
The parish church
in the settlement is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Murska Sobota. It was built in 1924.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
.
It has been officially designated a "stork
White Stork
The White Stork is a large bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. Its plumage is mainly white, with black on its wings. Adults have long red legs and long pointed red beaks, and measure on average from beak tip to end of tail, with a wingspan...
village" (i.e., a settlement with 10 or more storks’ nests). It was also the home of the Slovene writer Miško Kranjec
Miško Kranjec
Miško Kranjec was a Slovene writer.Kranjec was born in the village of Velika Polana in what was then the Kingdom of Hungary in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as the son of the village tailor Mihalj Kranjec...
. The house where he was born (which is also the tourist information office) can be visited. The village is surrounded by fenland and sunflowers, pumpkin, and wheat fields. The best way to explore the area is by cycling or walking the numerous trails.
The parish church
Parish church
A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches....
in the settlement is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Sacred Heart
The Sacred Heart is one of the most famous religious devotions to Jesus' physical heart as the representation of His divine love for Humanity....
and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Murska Sobota. It was built in 1924.