Archaeological site of Poštela

Make your way to the most important and best preserved prehistoric fort in this part of Slovenia, where buildings were found that date from the 4th century before Christ to the 4th century Anno Domini.

On a kilometre long mound of an Iron Age fort the foundations of 14 houses and a temple were discovered – a lot of Late Iron Age ceramics and metal objects were also found. These are now kept in Graz and the Regional Museum Maribor.

It is surmised that an old Roman trail here led the way (approximately in the direction of the present-day mountain transversal) to stone quarries in the surroundings of Areh.

The hillfort at Poštela is located on a carefully selected strategic location with a view over the majority of the Dravsko-Ptujsko polje. For this reason it was settled in several periods, and ramparts measuring up to several metres in height, which enclose the entire settlement, serve to underline its importance. The settlement, which reached its pinnacle in the Early Iron Age (8th to 6th century BC), was one of the most prominent centres in the area between the Eastern Alps and Pannonia. At the time it was surrounded by extensive burial sites, including burial mounds at Habakuk, in Razvanje and in the vicinity of Pivola, which are impressive to this day. The settlement was periodically populated also at the end of the Late Iron Age and during Roman times (approx. from the 1st century BC until the 4th century AD) as well as in the Early Middle Ages (9th-10th century AD).