page_title: Stara Loka
section_title: Stara Loka Castle
hierarchical_section_title: Stara Loka / Stara Loka Castle
caption_attribution_description: Stara Loka castle, in Škofja Loka, Slovenia photo:Ziga 20:43, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
context_page_description: Stara Loka is a settlement in the Municipality of Škofja Loka in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.
  It is one of the oldest Slovene settlements first mentioned in documents concerning the lands Emperor Otto II granted to Bishop Abraham of Freising in the Duchy of Bavaria, dating to 973 AD. It was the original settlement of Loka and by 1286 it was already mentioned as Stara Loka.
context_section_description: Opposite the church is a mansion known as Stara Loka Castle (Slovene: Starološki grad) or Strahl Castle (Slovene: Strahlov grad). It has a partly preserved defence tower from the late 15th century. The moat around the mansion is now filled in. It gets its name from the Strahl family, its 19th-century owners who partially rebuilt it and used it as a residence. It currently houses the Centre for the Blind and Partially Sighted and the Postal Museum.  A unique sundial that can be read by the blind was built in front of it in 1998.
caption: Stara Loka Castle
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