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Pejačević Palace [Dvorac Pejačević]

Located 50km northwest of Osijek on the road to Virovitica, Našice is the kind of peaceful one-street town that you’ll find all over Slavonia. Slap bang in the middle of town is the Pejačević Palace (Dvorac Pejačević), a deliciously custard-coloured structure framed by a splendid pair of bulbous green towers. The palace gets its name from the Pejačević family, granted ownership of the town in 1732 in reward for their services to the Habsburg court during the anti-Ottoman wars of the late seventeenth century. The Palace, built in 1812 and modified half a century later, is probably the best-preserved aristocratic seat in Slavonia, and the only one which is regularly open to the public. Inside, a grandiose double staircase curves its way up to the first-floor Regional Museum, a large part of which is devoted to Dora Pejačević (1885-1923), Croatia’s first female composer. Dora’s grand piano takes centre stage, surrounded by sepia family photographs, and a milky marble bust of a veiled female corpse that the moody composer kept in her room. The museum curator will gladly play a tape of Pejačević’s works as you look round (and there are CDs for sale should you like what you hear). Two other talented locals who get whole rooms to themselves are sculptor Hinko Juhn (1891-1940), represented here by some sensuous female nudes, and Izidor Kršnjavi (1845-1927), a painter and art critic who had a profound influence on the Zagreb art scene in the years prior to World War I. Watch out for Vlaho Bukovac’s striking portrait of Kršnjavi, dressed up in striking orangey-red tunic and coat. Open 08:00 - 18:00, Mon, Fri 08:00 - 15:00, Sat 09:00 - 12:00. Closed Sun. July - August 31 Open 08:00 - 14:00, Sat 09:00 - 12:00. Closed Sun. Admission 10 - 15kn.
Behind the palace stretches a beautiful landscaped park, with a verdant tree-scattered slope falling away towards a kidney-shaped lake popular with picnickers. The Pejačević hunting lodge (which is large enough to be a palace in its own right) is off to the left of the park’s main slope – it now serves as a school.
Over on the other side of the street from the palace, the Monastery Church of St Anthony of Padua (Crkva svetog Antuna Padovanskog), Kralja Tomislava 1, tel. (+385-31) 61 32 05 is a medieval Franciscan church which fell derelict during the Ottoman occupation, and was rebuilt in flamboyant Baroque style when the monks returned in the early eighteenth century. There’s a host of vivaciously ornamented Baroque altars inside, and an ornate pulpit with statues of the evangelists positioned around the balustrade. Round the back the church, the main monastery building harbors an exhibition of reliquaries, priestly vestments and old church manuscripts. Mass is daily at 07:00 and 18:30, Sun at 07:00, 09:00, 11:00 and 18:30. Open by prior arrangement.
The hotel Park, next to the palace at Pejačević trg 4, has a large restaurant which offers inexpensive lunchtime specials in the meat-and-potatoes line.

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Address:

Pejačevićev trg 5, Našice

Phone:

(+385-31) 61 34 14

www:

http://www.zmn.hr