Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici - Gomila

Access to starting point:
A) From highway Maribor - Lendava we go to the exit Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici, and then we follow the signs for the mentioned settlement, and we park in the center of the settlement on a settled asphalt parking lot below the parish church of St. Jurij, by the bus stop and confectionery Slaščičarna Jasmina. There are two parking lots, one by the main road, and another a little larger approximately 60 meters away.
B) We drive to Ptuj, and then we follow the signs towards Gornja Radgona and Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici, and on the main road, we drive to the settlement Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici, where we park in the center of the settlement on a settled asphalt parking lot below the parish church of St. Jurij, by the bus stop and confectionery Jasmina. There are two parking lots, one by the main road, and another a little larger approximately 60 meters away.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we walk to the main road, we carefully cross it on the pedestrian crossing, and then we continue on a sidewalk by the road which leads towards Lenart v Slovenskih goricah. At first, we on the right side bypass a parish church of St. Jurij, and then the sidewalk continues only on the right side of the road, where we go also past the primary school Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici. The path ahead leads us also through the settlement Blaguš, where at the hunting lodge LD Videm ob Ščavnici the sidewalk ends. Here we go carefully again on the left side of the road and further we walk through the forest. When we get to a marked crossroad, where a road branches off to the left towards the settlement Sovjak, Ženik, Kokolajnščak, Stara Gora, Kutinci and Galušak, and to the right downwards a marked path branches off towards the lake Blaguško jezero, we continue left.
From the crossroad, by which there are also signs for learning path we quickly get to the settlement Brezje through which we are lightly ascending, and during the walk we are accompanied by occasional blazes and information boards of the learning trail. A little further, at the smaller crossroad we go left upwards in the direction of Stara Gora and learning trail, and immediately after the crossroad we get to the settlement Ženik. From here follows some more ascending, and then a quite panoramic road which leads us among occasional houses, flattens. In the second part of the settlement Ženik, the path starts lightly descending, and then we continue on an indistinct ridge, where we are accompanied by nice views on Slovenske gorice. Next follows few minutes of walking and a light ascent and we get to the settlement Stara Gora, where only a little further from inn Janja there is Church of the Holy Spirit. At the Church of the Holy Spirit we go right in the direction of Gomila and we gradually start descending. At first, we go past a windmill, and then we are descending by the fields and individual farms. Lower, we reach another road, and we follow it to the left and there we without large changes in altitude walk to a crossroad, where we reach the main road Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici - Ptuj.
We follow the road right towards Ptuj, and we walk there few minutes or to the spot, where blazes point us to the left on a side road, by which there are also signs for winery. Next follows an ascent on the asphalt road which leads us between individual houses of the nearby hamlets, where at the crossroads we follow the blazes. Higher, the asphalt ends, and few minutes ahead we get to the settlement Grabšinci, where the road again becomes asphalted. Next follows few shorter ascents and descents, and at the crossroads, we still follow the blazes. Later we get to the settlement Mali Moravščak, and a little further to a crossroad, where we reach a little wider road which we follow to the right. On the mentioned road, we continue only few minutes, and then still before the next crossroad we go left into the forest, where for a short time, we are ascending on a forest path, and then we return on the asphalt road which we follow upwards (to the right we would return to the mentioned crossroad).
Few minutes we are still moderately ascending and we walk past houses, and higher from the left joins the path from Rucmanci and Trnovci.
Follows only few 10 strides of walking and we get to snack bar Okrepčevalnica pri Stolpu, and few steps ahead also to a lookout tower on Gomila.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in June 2020 and January 2022.

On the way: Blaguš (234m), Brezje (261m), Ženik (266m), Church of the Holy Spirit (Stara Gora) (262m), Terbegovci (215m), Piviči (275m), Grabšinci (289m), Mali Moravščak (295m)