Town Krapina is central Croatian highlands. Situated along the river Krapinčicu. The very name of the city is closely associated with the name of a river that was once rife with freshwater fish carp. On kajkavian dialect carp fish called carp.
The history of mankind in Krapina reaches far into the past from 120000-50000 years as testified by the remains of a man on the hill neandretalskog Hušnjakovo in the western part of the Krapina.
The first written documents in Krapina 1193rd year. In the Middle Ages there was a fort at the foot of Krapina which began to develop the settlement. The fort itself and the former manor were the royal estates. Since 14 century that it seeing some noble family. At that time a royal charter, Krapina become free trading. Keglević aristocratic family in the first half of the 16th century manor bought Krapina and settled in the middle then the largest Turkish incursions into Croatia. Families were the protectors of the religious orders and the Krapina in the 17th century appear Franciscans who built the church of St. Catherine and a Franciscan monastery. During the 18 th century in Zagorje proštenjarske vowed to build a church dedicated to the miraculous Madonna, thus occurs in Krapina famous church on a reed tip. In the 19 th century, at the time of awakening national consciousness and the establishment of the Croatian language, was born in Krapina Louis Gaj, ideological leader of the Croatian National Revival.
Modernization processes in the city continued into the second half of the 19th century until the outbreak of World War II. Large role in all this was the construction of the "Zagorje railroad," which was first protutnjila the end of 1886th years and because of its importance has been dubbed "life blood" of the Croatian Zagorje.
An integral part of general culture among the citizens and affirms the nurturing of social culture, which in various ways in accordance with the development of medical science, is present in Krapina, but during the Middle Ages. In the early 20th century, namely 1903rd Open the famous so-called Kneipp spa. Krapinske Mrzlica, and then the modern health center that operates today.
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