Grad(The Castle) - Trg Svobode(Liberty square) - Svetozarevska ulica(Svetozarevska street) - Lent - Vodnikov trg(Vodnik square) - Strossmayerjeva ulica(Strossmayerjeva street) - Mladinska ulica(Mladinska street) - Trg generala Maistra(General Maister square)
Vodnik square
Along Vojasniska ulica, next to
the Drava, we reach Okrogli stolp (the Round Tower, also
called the Monastery Tower) whose origins date back to
the fourteenth century. In 1540 it took its present
shape. On its eastern side is a building complex once
occupied by the Minorite Monastery , first mentioned in
1270. The former Minorite Church, which fell into
disrepair when Emperor Franz Josef II disbanded the
monastery is on the upper terrace, along Vojasniski trg.
For the past two centuries it has served as a storehouse.
If we turn east from the Round Tower, it can be reached
via the food market in Vodnikov trg. On the lower
terrace below the Church, along the town wall we find
another monastery, dating back to the thirteenth century.
From the beginning of the nineteenth century, to 1927, it
has served as the Drava Barracks, hence the names
Vojasniska ulica (Barracks Street) and Vojasniski trg
(Barracks Square). Still further to the east, Zicki dvor
(the Zice Mansion) is adjacent to the site of the former
Minorite Monastery. From the end of the fourteenth
century it served as the administrative and business
centre of the estates in the Maribor region owned by the
Cartesian Monastery at Zice, near Slovenske Konjice. From
1810 on for nearly a century the Zice Mansion was used as
a military court and military prison. The building has
now been converted into flats.
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