Brezje - Bazilika Marije Pomagaj na Brezjah (Brezjanska pot miru)
Starting point: Brezje (486 m)
| Lat/Lon: | 46,3284°N 14,2307°E |
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Name of path: Brezjanska pot miru
Time of walking: 2 h 15 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Altitude difference: 0 m
Altitude difference po putu: 90 m
Map: Karavanke - osrednji del 1:50.000
Recommended equipment (summer):
Recommended equipment (winter):
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Access to the starting point:
Leave the Gorenjska motorway at the Brezje exit, then follow the signs for the Basilica of Our Lady of Help of Christians in Brezje. Park in the large parking lot in front of the basilica.
Path description:
At the parking lot, there are information boards with outlines of tourist routes in the municipality of Radovljica, including signs for the Brezjan Peace Trail, which is marked with No. 10.
This trail starts at the Brezjan Pilgrimage Office, where the signs for the Brezjan Peace Trail direct you to a narrower road, which you follow at the junctions to the nearby cemetery. Before the cemetery, turn right and then left at the nearby crossroads onto a dirt track (the crossroads are well marked with signs for the Peace Path). There follows an easy walk between fields and meadows, from where you will have a beautiful view of Julian Alps and part of Kamnik Savinja Alps and the Karavanke Mountains. Once in the forest, the path leads to a pleasant resting place, after which the path descends to the Peračica stream.
The path continues along the brook, which is crossed several times via footbridges, and occasionally the path moves away from the brook. There are a few crossroads where you follow the signs for the Brezjan Peace Trail, and the trail quickly leads you past Vovkova spruce and over Ruth's Bridge to the Peračica waterfall, near which there is a registration box.
After the signing-in box, climb the stairs above the waterfall and then cross the Peračica stream via the footbridge. There is a short, slightly steeper climb, partly up some steps, and then you reach a macadam road, which you follow to the right (Dvorska vas on the left). Soon, a shortened part of the Brezjanska cesta mira (Brezjanska cesta mira) branches off the road to the right, and after a short descent, it returns to the path towards the access to the waterfall, and we follow the road with a few short climbs and descents to its end. When the road ends, follow the signs for the settlement Peračica, and the trail will take us along cart track for a while, and then, when the forest ends, we will get on the macadam road, and follow it to one of the houses in the settlement Peračica, where we will also reach the asphalt road.
Follow the road to the right, past the chapel and a few information boards, all the way to the Basilica of Our Lady of Help of Christians in Brezje, where we started and finished our journey.
Brezje - Waterfall Peračica 50 minutes, Waterfall Peračica - Peračica 45 minutes, Peračica - Brezje 40 minutes.
Description and pictures refer to the situation in 2017 (January).
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