The City of Velika Gorica, located 16 km south of Zagreb. The area of the old Municipality of Velika Gorica was split into three municipalities – Kravarsko, Orle and Pokupsko. Franjo Tuđman Airport, the largest and busiest airport in Croatia, is located in the area of Velika Gorica.

Main Velika Gorica’s sight is the Turopolje Museum which traces human presence in Turopolje since Neolithic. Here are also a number of monuments scattered around the city and its environs. Vrata od krča (“The Timber Gate”) is a unique wooden monument to human labour, risen up in forest near the city. Monument was risen in 1779 as a symbol of reclaiming the fertile land from forest. 

Old town Lukavec is a very well preserved fortification first mentioned in 1256 as Caput Lukavec. It was built by wood as a defense from Ottoman invasion.