Lukovdol is a small village located in the Gorski Kotar

Gorski kotar

Gorski kotar is the mountainous region in Croatia between Karlovac and Rijeka. Together with Lika and the Ogulin-Plaški valley it forms Mountainous Croatia. Because 63% of its surface is forested it is popularly called the green lungs of Croatia or Croatian Switzerland...

 region of Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

, about one mile south of the Slovenian border. Lukovdol is part of Vrbovsko

Vrbovsko

Vrbovsko is a town in western Croatia, situated at the far east of the mountainous region of Gorski kotar in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar county; on its 280 square kilometers area, Vrbovsko features 60 settlements and a total of 5,019 inhabitants...

. Lukovdol has an area of 5.91 km². As of 2001, there were approximately 157 people living in Lukovdol; the population consists of about 60 households: 47.8% women and 52.2% men. Local industries include cattle raising, lumber processing, and textile products. It is the birthplace of Ivan Goran Kovačić

Ivan Goran Kovacic

Ivan Goran Kovačić was a prominent Croatian poet and writer of the 20th century.-Early life and background:He was born in Lukovdol , a town in Gorski Kotar, to Croatian father Ivan and Jewish mother Ruža . His middle name Goran stems from that...

, Perhaps Croatia's most famous poet