Held annually in Krapina since 1966, this festival features original songs inspired by the traditional folk music of Hrvatsko Zagorje, and sung in the Kajkavian dialect.
At the time of construction, the interchange connected the new Zagreb bypass to former Brotherhood and Unity Highway which linked Zagreb to Slovenian border and a two-lane road to Krapina.
There is also a nearby municipality of Krapinske Toplice (Krapina spa) with numerous thermal springs and spa tourist infrastructure.
The town of Stubica features another thermal spring, the Stubičke toplice ("toplice" means spa).
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Hrašćina, a municipality in the Krapina-Zagorje County in Croatia.
Mače, Croatia, a village and municipality in Krapina-Zagorje County in Croatia
Among those executed in Macelj were 25 Catholic priests from the Franciscan monastery of Široki Brijeg which were temporarily hidden in nearby Krapina.
Middle Paleolithic burials at sites such as Krapina, Croatia (c. 130,000 BP) and Qafzeh, Israel (c. 100,000 BP) have led some anthropologists and archeologists, such as Philip Lieberman, to believe that Middle Paleolithic cultures may have possessed a developing religious ideology which included belief in concepts such as an afterlife; other scholars suggest the bodies were buried for secular reasons.
The event attracted attention and interest in the Krapina remains among many scientists: Erik Trinkaus, J. H. Musgrave, F. H. Smith, C. Guth, M. - A. de Lumley, Milford H. Wolpoff, A. Gardner and H. Ullrich.
Gornja Stubica, a municipality in Krapina-Zagorje County, Croatia
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Stubičke Toplice (lit. "Stubica spa"), a spa town in Krapina-Zagorje County