Lepoglava
City
Lepoglava monastery
Flag
Lepoglava Location of Lepoglava in Croatia
Coordinates: 46°12′27″N 16°02′37″E / 46.207399°N 16.043748°E / 46.207399; 16.043748
Country	Croatia
County	Varaždin
Government
• Mayor	Marijan Škvarić (HNS)
Area [1]
• City	65.9 km2 (25.4 sq mi)
• Urban	15.0 km2 (5.8 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]
• City	6,945
• Density	110/km2 (270/sq mi)
• Urban	3,400
• Urban density	230/km2 (590/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (Central European Time)
Website	lepoglava.hr

Lepoglava is a town in Varaždin County, northern Croatia, located southwest of Varaždin, west of Ivanec, and northeast of Krapina.

Demographics

A total of 8,283 residents in the municipality (2011 census) live in the following settlements:^[3]

History

Lepoglava is probably best known for hosting the main Croatian prison, the Lepoglava prison. In 1854, a monastery of the Pauline Fathers was transformed by the authorities into a prison. In the twentieth century, the prison was used to intern political prisoners by the authorities of Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Independent State of Croatia, and SFR Yugoslavia.

During WWII, the Lepoglava concentration camp is built by the Ustashe, around 2,000 prisoners were murdered there.