Gorica (pronounced [ˈɡoːɾitsa]; Hungarian: Halmosfő[2]) is a small roadside village in the Municipality of Puconci in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia.

[3] Gorica is located only 6 km north of Murska Sobota, the main town in the Prekmurje region.

Known locally by the Slovene word for spring, Izvir, it was particularly important before a water supply network was built in the village in 1968.

Crops cultivated in the area include wheat, barley, hybrid corn, fodder plants, rye, and sugar beets.

The Štrk Powered Paragliding Club from Murska Sobota also maintains a launch and landing strip with a small hangar in Gorica.

[4] The earliest mention of Gorica as Guricha in surviving written documents is in the Diplomataria dating to 1365, preserved in the National Archives of Hungary.

In the period immediately after the Second World War he was the initiator of the restoration of numerous local fire stations and their equipment as well as the education and training of firemen.