The birthplace of influential Slovene writer Janko Kersnik, the renaissance castle in Brdo pri Lukovici was the heart of the region up until as recently as World War Two. It was burnt down in the middle of that war however, and hasn’t been renovated since. This has left it a ruin of its former self, but its prior elegancy is practically undeniable. Only the exterior walls remain, but that is enough to imagine what it was like. What is a left of a one vastly luxurious garden sits in front, complete with a little pond. The castle still belongs to the Kersnik family to this day.