Kotnik-Lenarčičev Park in Verd

The Kotnik-Lenarčičev Park by the Ljubljanica River was built and planted in the 19th century by the Kotniks, a family of successful industrialists and landowners, on the site of three ruined farms in front of their house. Among the many exotic trees is a gingko tree, which the daughter and her husband Lenarčič brought back from their honeymoon in China.  The tree is now among the oldest of its species in Europe.

The park was enclosed by a brick fence, which included a neat little cottage with a spa overlooking a warm spring by the Ljubljanica River, and the Chapel of St Florian higher up the road. A memorial to the victims of the National Liberation Struggle (NOB) from Verd has stood on the site of the chapel since 1958. It is in the form of a prismatic pillar with four granite slates bearing the names of the fallen and topped by a bronze statue by Boris Kalin.