Marija Bistrica
Marija Bistrica | |
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Municipality | |
View of Marija Bistrica | |
| Coordinates: 46°0′19″N 16°07′07″E / 46.00528°N 16.11861°E | |
| Country | Croatia |
| County | Krapina-Zagorje County |
| Government | |
| • Municipal Mayor | Josip Milički |
| Area | |
• Municipality | 68.6 km2 (26.5 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 4.0 km2 (1.5 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 192 m (630 ft) |
| Population (2021) | |
• Municipality | 5,553 |
| • Density | 81/km2 (210/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 1,045 |
| • Urban density | 260/km2 (680/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 49 246 |
| Area code | 049 |
| Website | marija-bistrica |
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Marija Bistrica (Croatian pronunciation: [mǎrija bîstrit͡sa]) is a village and municipality in the Krapina-Zagorje County in central Croatia, located on the slopes of the Medvednica mountain in the Hrvatsko Zagorje region north of the capital Zagreb. The municipality has 5,976 inhabitants, with 1,071 residents in the settlement itself (2011 census).
Marija Bistrica has an old Marian shrine of the Black Madonna which is a place of pilgrimage and visited by hundreds of thousands of pilgrims every year. On 3 October 1998, Pope John Paul II visited Marija Bistrica and beatified Croatian Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac in front of a crowd of 500,000 Croatians.