Tacen (Sveti Jurij) - Šmarna gora (Romarska pot)

Access to starting point:
A) From the Ljubljana-Jesenice highway take the Ljubljana-Šmartno exit, then continue driving towards Tacen. We continue on Tacenska cesta to the crossroads with Ulica bratov Novak, where our path begins. At the crossroads there is a bus stop (stop no. 804151) and a few meters away the church of St. Jurij. At the starting point there are no appropriate parking spots.
B) From Celovška cesta in Ljubljana just after the entrance to the Gorenjska highway the road towards Vižmarje and Tacen branches off to the right (if coming from the Medvode side just before the entrance to the highway continue left). We continue driving towards Tacen, then immediately after crossing the bridge over the Sava River continue right towards Šmartno. We continue on Tacenska cesta to the crossroads with Ulica bratov Novak, where our path begins. At the crossroads there is a bus stop (stop no. 804151) and a few meters away the church of St. Jurij. At the starting point there are no appropriate parking spots.
C) The starting point can also be reached by city bus LPP no. 8.

Route description:
By the bus stop we notice signs for the Romarska pot to Šmarna gora, which direct us to a slightly ascending road. The path first leads along Ulica bratov Novak, then just behind the water trough which we notice on the left side, we leave the road and continue slightly left on an initially wide cart track. After a short ascent the cart track splits into two parts, we choose the right marked cart track, which gradually starts to ascend more steeply. We continue on and beside the cart track, which leads us through the forest in a moderate ascent. Higher we join the path from Šmartno, a little further we arrive at the marked junction by the chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows.
Here we continue left upwards on the path, which gradually starts to ascend somewhat more steeply. To the path, which ascends all the time through the forest, first another path from Tacen joins, in a sharp right bend the path from Vikrče also joins, we continue on the wide path, which past a chapel brings us to a marked junction, where to the left the marked path to Grmada branches off. Here too we continue straight, the path brings us from the forest to the saddle between Grmada and Šmarna gora.
Here we step onto the road (access from Zavrha) along which we continue the ascent, which soon splits into two parts. We can continue the ascent on the road, in this case we ascend to the summit past the wish bell, or continue right on the marked footpath, which past the chapel of St. Sobota also brings us to the summit of Šmarna gora.

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