Hince's sequoia

On the left bank of the river Drava, 2 kilometres from the city centre, in the settlement Orešje, stands the Hince’s sequoia. This kind of tree was brought to Europe in the 19th century and planted in parks. The sequoia in Orešje is the largest among the trees of its kind in Slovenia. The circumference of the tree is 743cm and it measures 43.5 meters in height.