When, in the Gorenjska region, a person says that you “have potatoes”, it means that you are lucky.

In Šenčur, a pleasant and well-tended town in the middle of the Gorenjska plain, there is a monument to the humble potato. And if you are interested in what all this has to do with the Empress Maria Theresa, you should look for the answer right here amidst the vast fields of potatoes.