Lent is a beautiful old part of Maribor along the Drava River. It is the oldest part of the city that becomes most vibrant in the summer when the international multicultural Festival Lent takes place. The Drava embankment is full of top cultural events and entertainment at that time. Numerous cafes, bars and restaurants invite you to sit down with excellent hospitality. The most important sights on Lent are the Water Tower, the Jewish Tower, the Old Bridge, the Old Vine and the Old Vine House, Manor Zicki Dvor, the Minorite Monastery, the Minorite Church of Mary's Assumption, the Judgement Tower, the city walls of the Old Town Center, and Market hall on Vodnikov trg. Lent used to be an important port, with about 1000 river timber rafts landing annually. Even today, you can try your hand at riding on a traditional raft. Lent started to be renovated in the 1980s. The biggest pride of Maribor is the Old Vine, which is the oldest noble vine in the world. It is more than 400 years old and can also be found in the famous Guinness Book of Records. The Old Vine winds its way along the south facade of the Old Vine House, which is a tourist information center, exhibition and event place. The Water Tower dates from the 16th century. It is built of stone massive walls with firing lines and represents a Renaissance fort. The Usnjarska ulica Street, one of the oldest in Maribor, passes by. Until the end of the 14th century, the Manor Zicki Dvor was the property of the Carthusian monastery of Zice. At the beginning of the 19th century, it was transformed into a barracks with the Minorite monastery, and later into military prisons and a court. The Jewish tower is located next to the synagogue in Jewish Square. In it today has the premises the Fotoklub Maribor. The Judgement Tower is also one of the defensive towers of the town walls that protected the city. It delivered judgments, they also associate it with witchcraft processes. The Minorite Church of Mary's Assumption forms the central part of the Minorite Monastery, which is the only medieval monastery in the city. The church was given its present appearance with a baroque tower and facade in the 18th century. Today's Old Bridge was built between 1906 and 1912. You can buy all kinds of agricultural products (dried fruits, seeds, herbs, dried goods, fruits, vegetables, meat, etc.) at the renovated modern marketplace on Vodnikov trg Square.

Minorite Square was named the Beef Square in the Middle Ages, because they leaded the cattle to the River Drava from here. From the year 1959, when it was built the new bridge over the river, goes from here to the town one of the main roads. On the Minorite Square is the Mary’s Pillar, which was erected by the count Georg Friedrich Sauer in the thanks for the victory above Turks. After many famous victories they erected such columns in many towns of the Hapsburgs monarchy. The founders of the Minorite Monastery were the well known Lords of Ptuj, which already established the Dominican Monastery in the year 1230. The earliest mentioning of the monastery in written sources goes to the 13th century. In this time the buildings were comprehending only the eastern part of the today’s building. They rebuilt it many times from the 14 th century. They changed the monastery and the church to the baroque style in the last quarter of the 17th century under the guidance of the guardian Gaspar Dietel. The church was pulled down by the bombs in the year 1945. On the place of the former church by the Gothic presbytery they built the post office in the year 1967. The presbytery was finally renovated in the year 1989. They demolished the post building in the year 2001 and started to built the church nave by the plans of the former church. The most beautiful rooms are the library and the refectory.

On the side of an old chapel the first church was built between 1636 and 1643. A bell from 1666, the bell-tower and a part of the nave, now exhibited in the presbytery, are the only remains of the original church. In 1663 the church was taken over by the Augustinian friars from Radgona. With the help of castellan Traumansdorf from Negova they had a monastery built along the southern part of the church which was in its turn aggrandized. The church had soon become too small to accommodate the increasing number of pilgrims. In 1735 the count Draskovic's financial help facilitated the building of a new Baroque church. In 1756 the main altar was completed and as many as six side altars three years later. The new church was consecrated in the year 1772. Both bell-towers at the church frontage and facing the square were built in years from 1779 to 1780. At the same period the church was connected to the cloister. In 1787 the monastery was closed down while the church became a parish under the patronage of deanery in Lenart. In 1811 the Augustinians abandoned the monastery and the church was taken care of by diocesan priests. In 1854 the parish passed to Franciscan friars who are still responsible for it. In 1885 the bell-tower near the main altar got its present appearance. The church in itself is considered a Baroque masterpiece. A quite special artefact is the main altar made between 1752 and 1756. It belongs among three biggest altars in Slovenian churches. The magnificent Baroque altar is very dynamic due to statues and angel's figures, impressive pillars as well as a picture which represents the Mystery of the Holy Trinity. In 1883 and 1884 the church was painted by Oswald and Egid Bieri and Giacomo Brollo. The third altar was made by Josef Straub in 1756. A Loretto chapel was built in 1693 lean-to the first church and contains a statue of Black Mary. A column bears a famous Mary's throne and a statue of the Virgin which used to be carried around in processions. The cloister houses a church museum and a famous library with more than 3,000 precious volumes. Among the books can be found the first printed book on physics from the year 1574. Since 2003 the church has one of the biggest organs in Slovenia.