Grad Pišece - Podsreda castle (mimo Velike bukve)

Access to starting point:
a) We drive to Krško, where we first follow the signs for Brežice, then for Zdole, and after Zdole for Bizeljsko. We continue through Sromlje, following the road to Pišece, from there following the signs for Grad Pišece. We park at one of the parking lots near the castle.
b) From Brežice we follow the signs for Bizeljsko, then on the flat section where the road runs through the forest we turn left onto the side road towards Globoko. In the settlement Globoko we go right towards Pišece, and continue following the signs for Pišece. When we arrive in Pišece we follow the signs for Grad Pišece. We park at one of the parking lots near the castle.
c) From the direction of Bistrica ob Sotli we drive towards Brežice, at the end of the Bizeljsko settlement we turn right towards Pišece. When we arrive in Pišece we follow the signs for Grad Pišece. We park at one of the parking lots near the castle.

Route description:
North of the castle, near one of the parking lots, we notice signs for the Path of Sovereignty and an older board of the forest educational trail. The signs direct us to a path that immediately turns into the forest and continues along a rough cart track. This initially ascends, then levels out and crosses the slopes to the right for some time. In the last part of the crossing, the path gently descends; when we reach the nearby stream, we join a cart track coming from the direction of Ribnik or the starting point Marof near Pišece.
We continue left towards the north along the cart track, which gradually turns into a footpath. This levels out briefly, then ascends somewhat more steeply. After the ramsons patch, it turns right, moves away from the valley bottom and leads us along its head. The path then quickly turns back to the left and ascends to the forest road, which we reach near the bivouac of the Pišece Hunting Society.
Before the bivouac, we go left, then red mountaineering direction signs for Kerinov monument and Pečice direct us right onto the mountaineering path (straight ahead Path of Sovereignty), which begins to ascend through the forest. After 15 minutes of ascent, we arrive near the top of Intermedija, where we go right and reach the highest point of the peak in a few steps, from which some views open through the treetops.
From the top, we continue along the marked path, which begins to descend towards the southwest, lower down we return to the road and follow it to the right. A few minutes further, we go slightly right from the road and continue on the path to the right of the road, later we cross it and continue on the marked path to the left of the road. We return to the road at a marked junction of several roads and the marked path, where we go right (left Kerinov monument 1-2 minutes), then the path immediately branches again.
Although the signs for Grad Podsreda direct us slightly left onto the footpath, we follow the right signs, where there are signs for Pečice, Osredek and Pusti Vrh (the path over Veliki vrh is somewhat longer, mainly orientationally somewhat more difficult to traverse, and joins our path at the hamlet Preska). The path ahead leads along an asphalt road that bypasses the top of Šuljcev breg on the right side, when we leave the forest we soon arrive at the hamlet Preska, where there is a stamp at the Šulc farm, and behind the farm we join the path leading over Veliki vrh.
We continue straight, one minute further we go straight again (this time a path to Svete gore branches right). We continue past a few houses, then the road becomes macadam and proceeds without major ascents or descents. Later we reach the pastures of the hamlet Pusti Vrh, the road begins to descend more noticeably after the hamlet, and at the start of the descent a path from the shelter in Pečice joins from the left.
Continuing, we follow the signs for Grad Podsreda, the path bypasses Rigelj, the peak with antennas, on the left side. When we temporarily leave the forest lower down we go right from the intersection, when we return to the forest we go left from the intersection (right Svete Gore), then descend along the asphalt road to Grad Podsreda.

Starting point - Bivak LD Pišece 0:50, Bivak LD Pišece - Intermedija 0:15, Intermedija - Kerinov spomenik 0:25, Kerinov spomenik - Preska 0:20, Preska - Pusti Vrh 0:15, Pusti Vrh - razpotje na Marofu 0:15, razpotje na Marofu - razpotje pred Gradom Podsreda 0:04, razpotje pred Gradom Podsreda - Grad Podsreda 0:06.

Description and photos refer to the condition in March 2026.

Along the route: Brod (404m), Bivak Lovske družine Pišece (594m), Intermedija (662m), Kerinov spomenik (614m), Kmetija Šulc (625m), Preska (625m), Pusti Vrh (634m), Razpotje na Marofu (544m), Razpotje pred Gradom Podsreda (524m)

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