Metlika
 
Economic and cultural centre of the commune. The old historical kernel of Metlika is situated on the rising between the Obrh valley and the dry riverbed of the Bojica. The commendam of Teutonic Knights, the presbytery, the church of St.Nicholas, the town hall, the castle and old middle class houses give the town a picturesque appearance. However, in Metlika there are no buildings, older than 300 years, because it burnt down to the ground in 1705.

The area of today's Metlika was settled serriedly as far back as in prehistory. The original medieval settlement was called Novi trg (New Square) and was given the rights of a town by the Count of Gorizia and Tyrol Henrik II. before 1335. The name Metlika for Novi trg was asserted only round the year 1378. Metlika was one of the more important defence fortifications, at first against Hungary and later on against Turks. The latter appeared for the first time in 1408, then 15 more times and for the last time in 1578. Strong Protestant movement in the 16^th century brought the town cultural prosperity and first beginnings of educational system. Metlika experienced its second cultural prosperity in the l9^th century, when the town band, National Reading Club and the first fire brigade were founded. Their common characteristic was strong emphasizing the Slovene nationality. In the beginning of the 20^th century gymnastic society Sokol (Hawk) started to assert itself. It was spreading the ideas of Slovene reciprocity and thus opposed strongly to germanization. The opening of the Bela krajina railroad in 1914 meant the start of economic progress. In the time of the Monarchy of Yugoslavia Metlika was for some time the seat of the independent district, (1931 - 1936). In the town there are many symbols, bearing witness to its significance during the National Liberation War.The central monument and the memorial plaque with the names of fallen partisans and victims of fascist violence erected here. There are more memorial plaques, reminding also of other events and of important people, born in this town. After the Second World War Metlika experienced great economic progress (factories Beti, Komet, Kolpa and Novoteks, and Wine Cellar), after attainment of independence of Slovenia it became a frontier town with an international crossing once again.

In the castle of Metlika the Museum of Bela krajina found its place. Here and in its immediate vicinity the Slovene Fire Museum keeps its collections. Today's parochial church of St. Nicholas was built in 1759. It has baroque altars and is decorated with paintings of Domenico Fabris of the year 1850. On the hill Veselica there is a guest house with a wonderful view on Metlika and surroundings. Near the town centre the hotel Bela krajina is located. Accomodation over night is available at the guest house Badovinac as well.

Drašiči

A larger settlement in the east of Bela krajina. The centre of viticulture with most favourable positions for vineyards in the whole viniferous district of Bela krajina. Here are: the Babna gora, Nova gora, Plesci Vrh, Repica, Vidosici, Vinomer... Here the so called "neighbourhood cellar" still works as a remain of past village community, which proves a very old wine trade tradition.
Drasici were once famous as a village with the kept rustic architecture, which is today, unfortunately, so to say destroyed. In the lower part of the village there is the church of St. Peter, dating from the year 1775.
 

Gorjanci

The Gorjanci are a wide-ranging mountain massif, rising between the Krsko and Karlovsko wall. In the west the valley of the river Cermosnjica devide it from the Kocevski Rog, in the east it is reaching the Sava river. It rises the highest with the 1178 m high Trdinov vrh. Its steep slopes have been ridged by torrentialibrooks.
The most picturesque are Klamfer, Kobila and Pendirjevka with the spring Minutnik (called “zaganjalka'”. For the Gorjanci vast. beech forests are typical, below the Trdinov vrh and Ravna gora even two remains of the primeval. forest have been kept. On ridges there are floristically interesting meadows. Along with the many coloured nature the mountain ridge is given a specia characterstic by the rich national tradition, which the writer Janez Trdina collected at the end of the 19^th century and wrote down in his Bajke in povesti o Gorjancih (Fables and Tales about the Gorjanci). Along the ridge the frontier with Croatia runs. Accesses on blazed paths and forest roads.

Rosalnice - Three Parishes

Famous pilgrimage group of three gothic churches Tri fare (Three Parishes), where the seat of the parish of Metlika until 1461 was, when it was transmitted to Metlika itself. All three churches have preserved the one-piece presbytery with a cross-rip vault and pillars in exterior and are therefore, from the architectural point of view the most important monument of gothic architecture in Bela krajina. The oldest is the north church, from the time about 1400, dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows; in the baroquized nave the profiled gothic main portal has been preserved. The interior was decorated with pictures by the Carniolan painter J.Egartner in the first half of the 19th century. Baroque altars date from the 2.Half of the 18th century. The middle church, Ecce homo, was built at the end of the 15th century, the stall and the church tower were constructed later. The baroquized interior of the nave was decorated with pictures in 1862 by J.Tavcar from Idrija. On the exterior of the south church, dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes, remains of a medieval fresco have been preserved among the butresses, in the interior, however, beside a cross vault also a gothic wall tabernacle with pinnacles. The nave was devided into three naves in the 19th century. In front of the stone wall of the churches complex there grows a lime grove, denoting the pilgrimage ambience.