Golica

Golica
Golica
	Golica
Highest point
Elevation	1,835 m (6,020 ft)
Coordinates	46°29′24″N 14°03′01″E / 46.49000°N 14.05028°E
Geography
	Golica Slovenia - Austria
Parent range	Karawanks

Golica (1835 m) (

Carinthia; the Ljubljana Basin

can be seen from the summit on clear days.

Golica also gained considerable fame as the subject of the 1955 Slavko Avsenik polka Na Golici (On Golica), the Avsenik Ensemble's most popular song. Despite having given the song this title, Avsenik was never in his life on Golica.^[3]

250 m below the summit, there is a

partisans to prevent their use by German soldiers. The hut at the summit was never rebuilt.^[4]

The slopes of Golica are today used as pastures for sheep, but until 1957 locals from settlements at its foot would clear the entire slope of grass for hay (a possible etymology of the name, which derives from the adjective "gol-," or "bare.").

The best way to reach the peak is from

Jesenice via the mountain village of Planina pod Golico

, which bears the peak's name.