Kutina

Kutina is Moslavina’s largest urban centre, set between the vineyard slopes of Moslavačka Gora and the floodplains of Lonjsko Polje, roughly 70 kilometres from Zagreb. In the town centre, the Moslavina Museum occupies a former Erdődy manor, a Baroque residence remodelled in 1895, and uses archaeological, historical and ethnographic collections to trace life from prehistory to twentieth-century Moslavina villages. The eighteenth-century Church of Our Lady of the Snows preserves illusionistic paintings completed by Josip Görner in 1779, carved Baroque altars and an unusual Holy Sepulchre. Crkvena and Radićeva streets retain examples of traditional timber architecture. Six kilometres from central Kutina, Repušnica serves as Moslavina’s gateway to Lonjsko Polje Nature Park, with walking, cycling and water routes. Vineyards planted with the indigenous Škrlet grape begin on the opposite side of town along the Moslavina Wine Road. This compact geography makes it possible to combine urban heritage, wetlands and wine country in one day, finishing with local Škrlet and Moslavina’s characteristic carp roasted on a fork.

Kutina belongs to Sisak-Moslavina County, and its administrative area comprises 23 settlements across 294.34 square kilometres. Its identity is shaped by three sharply different landscapes: the flat wetlands of Lonjsko Polje, the urban centre beside the Kutinica stream and the vineyard-covered slopes of Moslavačka Gora. Medieval Kutina functioned as a market and transport hub, while the Széchényi and Erdődy families influenced its later history. The Petrokemija works, founded in 1968, add an industrial layer to the historic townscape. Kutina’s visitor identity, however, centres on the indigenous Škrlet grape, the Moslavina Museum and the Repušnica entrance to Lonjsko Polje.