Holy Trinity Square assumes the central position in the town's historical centre and it is the best place to start our stroll through Požega. It is shaped as an irregular triangle with romanesque features and it gained its current appearance in the age of baroque. Its...

The visitors' centre is the starting point of the sightseeing tour where you can find all the important information and learn about the town's history and culture; also it provides guidelines on which cultural institution to visit next. The main components of the...

The oldest historical record of the Franciscans in Požega dates back to 1260, whereas the church is believed to have been built during the reign of King Ladislaus IV around the year 1285. During the Turkish reign the church was converted into a mosque and its...

Gradska knjižnica Požega središnja je narodna i matična knjižnica Požeško-slavonske županije čiji počeci sežu u 1845. godinu kada je u Požegi osnovana Čitaonica pod nazivom Lectoria societas. Knjižnica je smještena u zgradi Prve požeške štedionice koja datira iz 1907....

The town magistrate palace was built in 1785 in the southwestern part of the square, in historicistic style as a one-storey building with another three terraced houses. On the first floor there was a spacious City Hall, the Mayor's office and the office of the Great...

The building of the city museum is situated on the western part of the Holy Trinity Square and being one of the town's oldest secular buildings it is considered a jewel of baroque architecture. It was constructed at the beginning of the 18th century as a business and...

The Požeško-slavonska county Palace is located in Županijska Street, which stretches northbound starting from the northwestern corner of Požega's main square. On the western side of the street, ever since the first half of the 18th century there was a baroque...

The two buildings complex on the Holy Trinity Square, the city hotel „The Golden Lamb” and the representative hall of the City Theatre, was set up after the reconstruction of an older 19th century building. The buildings got their final appearance in 1895. Their main...

On the central Holy Trinity Square, our eyes set on the former Jesuit “College” which is now the seat of Požega Diocese, the Bishops’s residence and residence of his colleagues, used also as the Diocese administration offices. It was built by the Jesuits from 1709 to...

Immediately next to the former Jesuit College, today the seat of the Požega Diocese, stands the medieval St. Lawrence Church, one of the oldest preserved monuments of Gothic heritage in this part of Croatia and the bearer of great historical and cultural significance....

Immediately next to the Church of St. Lawrence, sits the convent of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul who have been active in Požega since 1878. The building was built as a one-storey building in 1726 for the needs of the Požega Lyceum. Academia Posegana,...

St. Theresa Cathedral was built in the mid-18th century and is based on the Latin cross with pronounced vertical lines, and its exterior, with its tall slim bell tower, and interior radiate elegance and harmony of late baroque architecture. Special credit for its...

The Diocesan Museum of the Požega Diocese was founded by bishop Antun Škvorčević in 1999. It consists of a sacred collection, a collection of modern and contemporary art, ethnographic collection, graphic collection and a plaque and medal collection. The museum has a...

In front of St. Theresa Cathedral there is a monument of friar Luka Ibrišimović, Požega's saviour and liberator from the Turks. The monument of the Požega “Hawk” („Sokol”) was made by Đuro Kiš, and in 1893 it was placed directly in front of the church portal. To its...

Immediately next to St. Theresa Square there is the Old town, a hill located in the very centre of town where there used to be the old Požega fortress, dating back to 1227. Nowadays it is a park and promenade, decorated according to Vilim Just's design from 1877. The...

On St. Theresa Square stands the building of Catholic Grammar School and Catholic Primary School (until 2010 it was the building of Požega Grammar School). Grammar school in Požega boasts a century-long tradition as one of the oldest educational institutions in...

Walking past the Diocesan Museum, we reach the intersection of Vjekoslav Babukić Street and Kamenita vrata Street, which got its name after the building and the northern gate of the city which once stood there. From that intersection we have a view of the Post Office,...

The Sokolovac (Hawk’s peak) is a hill not far from the city centre that got its name after the priest friar Luka Ibrišimović Sokol. It was right there where he managed to defeat the Ottoman Turks in and finally liberate Požega. As a sign of admiration for the great...

Opposite Sokolovac there is the old Požega promenade Tekija with a famous well of cold drinking hill water. The legend says that the one who drinks water from Tekija never leaves Požega and surely never forgets it.

The chapel was built in 1739 with a cemetery around it. Near the chapel in 1872 a Jewish cemetery was erected, sadly devastated in the 2nd World War and renovated in 2004.

The Serbian Orthodox church of St. George was originally built in 1845 in the neo-baroque style. Unfortunately it was demolished in the 2nd World War and today’s church building was erected in 1988 in the so-called Serbian-byzantine style. The original parish house...

Even though Nikola Tesla, the famous American inventor of Serbian heritage born in the Croatian region of Lika, had nothing in common with Požega, the “father” of alternating current got its statue here in 2012. It was erected in remembrance of the first 100 years of...

The railway building was erected in 1894 at the, at the time, the southern entrance to the city. The history of the railway in Požega is long, considering it took the whole second half of the 19th century to build it. It was first planned that Požega should lay on the...

Located in the pedestrian zone, where the Cehovska and Sv. Florijana streets meet, stands the neo-renaissance building of the County court erected in 1896 by the architects Deutsch and Höningsberg. In the oval middle section of the building, there is a niche with the...

The new Gymnasium building was opened in 2009 not far from the Požega College (Veleučilište u Požegi). It is one of the most modern high school buildings in Croatia with a capacity of 700 students. The Gymnasium in Požega is proud of its several hundred years of...

This house was home to the writer Miroslav Kraljević, in which in 1862 he established a printing house, the second oldest in Slavonia. There he printed the first Požega novel “Požeški đak” (The student from Požega).

In honor of the famous Požega-born Croatian art-historian, painter and writer the bust of Matko Peić stands in the center of this small square. On the opposite side of the street, there is the bust of another artist from Požega, the 19th-century painter Miroslav...