THE DORNAVA MANOR

The today manor stands on the site of a former smaller one, which stood there probably already in the Middle Ages and belonged to the Lords of Ptuj, the Herbersteins and the Sauers. In 1730 the entire property was bought by the Count Dizma Attems who had it thoroughly rebuilt between 1739 and 1743, thus creating a true Baroque manor surrounded by a beautifully rich park. After 1820 the owners were princes of Auersperg, and before the last war the family Pongratz. After the war, the Institution for people with special needs was moved there.

The building with its frescoes and pavilion-like smaller buildings and the park represent the ideal synthesis between the architecture and nature shaped by human creativity. The manor, composed of the central wing and two pavilion-like buildings in the courtyard, stands in the axis of the Baroque park full of various plants and of Baroque statues (the antique themes and allegorical figures prevail). Equally rich in decoration, the interior boasts a two-storeys Main Hall and its paintings which depict the life of the antique hero Hercules. Other rooms are also very nice, embellished with stucco work and equipped with rich furniture of the Rococo style, as well as wall tapestries. The latter were taken to the Ptuj Regional Museum. Nowadays, the Institution having moved out, the buildings are uninhabited.

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