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In 1992 the Cistercian Abbey of Stična founded the company SITIK, to bring Ašič’s herbal inheritance within reach of a wider circle of people.
The herbal pharmacy and shop in the Cistercian Abbey of Stična.
A herbal pharmacy with a tea room and a shop
In 1992 the Cistercian Abbey of Stična founded the company SITIK, so that a wider circle of people could reach the rich inheritance Father Simon Ašič left behind.
In his own lifetime Father Simon Ašič was the best known monk of Stična, who with great kindness and patience gave away the herbal knowledge he had gathered by studying what literature was then to be had. He filled out other specialists' experience with his own.
Since 2000 the Cistercian abbey has held its own registered trade mark for the products it makes to Father Simon Ašič's original recipes. By carrying the herbal tradition on and building on it with the newest findings in pharmacognosy, the mark has earned great standing and trust among its customers.
Advice, tea to measure, and somewhere to sit
At the Father Simon Ašič Herbal Pharmacy in Stična, visitors can have the pharmacist's expert advice, order tea blends made to measure to their own wishes and needs, buy blends already made up and other herbal preparations, or treat themselves to a cup of healing tea in the neatly kept tea room, in quiet surroundings and an unhurried mood.
In the Father Simon Ašič Herb Garden, which we opened in 2022 in thanks and in memory of Father Simon Ašič and of Jože Kukman, M. Pharm., you can also see some of the characteristic medicinal plants and sit a while in the quiet of the oldest Slovenian monastery – and one still very much alive.
Buying the products
Seeing the tea room
The herb garden
A little bird sang in Latin: “SIT HIC!”, which means “LET IT BE HERE!”
On where the name SITIK comes from
The monastery at Stična
The abbey of Stična is the oldest spiritual and cultural centre in Slovenia: its beginnings reach back to 1132, to the Romanesque age.
Soon after its founding, the monastery at Stična became the religious, ecclesiastical, cultural and economic centre of Carniola. The monastery library kept the precious illuminated Stična Manuscripts in Latin, from the 12th and 13th centuries. In 1428 the monastery also produced the important Stična Manuscript, one of the first written monuments in Slovenian. Over the centuries the monastery changed its built appearance, but its oldest core – the cloister and the abbey church – has been kept to this day.
During the reforms of Joseph II the monastery was dissolved, in 1784. After 114 years, in 1898, the white monks returned to Stična, where in the Cistercian spirit of “Ora et labora” they carry on their centuries-old way.
The monastery at Stična is the only Cistercian monastery still working, and at the same time one of the greatest cultural, sacred and architectural monuments in the country. Beside the monastery there is also the Museum of Christianity in Slovenia, with interesting permanent and temporary exhibitions and other events alongside them.
More about the history and the monastery at Stična
Where next
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Father Simon Ašič
Who the monk was whose recipes we still use, and why his books are in almost every Slovenian house.
His story -
The tea room and the pharmacy
In the rooms of the old dairy. The pharmacist’s advice, tea to measure, and a cup in quiet surroundings.
Come and see us -
The monastery nursery
One of the largest nurseries in Slovenia. Ornamental plants and vegetable seedlings, grown at Marof.
See the nursery