Mokrice Castle is a medieval castle southeast of Brežice

Brežice

Brežice is a city and municipality in eastern Slovenia in the Lower Sava Valley, near the Croatian border. The area was traditionally divided between Lower Styria and Lower Carniola...

, Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

, located in the Gorjanci hills in the village of Jesenice

Jesenice, Brežice

Jesenice, sometimes also Jesenice na Dolenjskem, is a settlement on the right bank of the river Sava in the Brežice Municipality in eastern Slovenia, right on the border with Croatia. The area was traditionally part of Lower Carniola. During the Second World War it was one of five Slovene...

, near the Croatia

Croatia

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n border. First mentioned in 1444, it was rebuilt in the 16th century and in 1941. After World War II

World War II

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it was made into a hotel with restaurants and in 1988 a golf course was built in the grounds to the castle.