51st Marunada 2026

Lovran - Liganj - Dobreć

Marunada Lovran - 2026

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The people of Lovran are extremely proud of their chestnuts (maruni), and in October they dedicated a festival to them, called Marunada, which has been held for four decades in Lovran and the nearby villages of Liganj and Dobreć. At the Marunada you will find products made from chestnuts, traditional roasted chestnuts and dishes made with them. Cafés and pastry shops prepare cakes, sweets and tarts, while in taverns and restaurants you can taste authentic home-style dishes and dishes based on chestnuts.

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A selection of maruni, roasted maruni, cakes and other chestnut sweets, home-style dishes, special dishes with maruni, chestnut honey, medica (honey liqueur)...

Marunada 3. – 31. 10. 2026.
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Main organizers:

Municipality of Lovran
Lovran Tourist Board




Partners and co-organizers:

Kultura Lovran
Our Children Society
Liburnia
City of Opatija
TZ Opatija
Dobreć Local Committee






Patrons and sponsors:

Liburnia
Primorje-Gorski Kotar County
City of Opatija
Radnik Opatija


Brajdice Parking Lot

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Marunada

In the Middle Ages, chronicles mention Lovran as a town of seafarers, fishermen and fruit traders. The people of Lovran traded mostly in their famous maruni from the orchards on the slopes of Mount Učka. Lovran maruni are considered one of the highest-quality varieties of chestnut in the world (comparable only to the Slovenian Goriški maruni and the Italian Gentile de Torino).

MARUNADA

The forests, or more precisely the orchards, of this noble sweet chestnut, grown in the hamlets above Lovran - Dobreć, Liganj, Tuliševica, Kožuli and Lovranska Draga - came about by crossing local wild chestnuts with saplings that Lovran sailors brought back from one of the countries of the Far East, most likely Japan. The export of maruni peaked in the 19th century, when they were in greatest demand in Italy, Austria and Germany.

MARUNADA

The people of Lovran are extremely proud of their chestnuts (maruni), and in October they dedicated a festival to them, called Marunada, which has been held for four decades in Lovran and the nearby villages of Liganj and Dobreć. At the Marunada you will find products made from chestnuts, traditional roasted chestnuts and dishes made with them. Cafés and pastry shops prepare cakes, sweets and tarts, while in taverns and restaurants you can taste authentic home-style dishes and dishes based on chestnuts. Alongside chestnut delicacies, visitors can enjoy homemade medica (honey liqueur), honey-based brandies and local young wine, and on weekends chestnut feasts are organised with entertainment and sports activities.

The British newspaper The Guardian named this festival one of the ten best autumn food festivals in Europe. The Lovran Marunada also appears alongside similar events from Switzerland, Italy, France, Germany, Austria and Spain on the Swiss web portal Kastanienland, which promotes sweet chestnuts, chestnut dishes and festivals dedicated to chestnuts.