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Bojnice

Bojnice is a historical town in western Slovakia located on the Nitra river, near the city of Prievidza.

Bojnice
Bojnice · Shesmax (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The place

Bojnice is a historical town in western Slovakia located on the Nitra river, near the city of Prievidza. The town is situated just below the Bojnice Castle. It has a population of around 5,000.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bojnice

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Bojnice Castle

    Bojnice Castle is a medieval castle in Bojnice, Slovakia. It is a Romanesque castle with some original Gothic and Renaissance elements built in the 12th century.

    200 m · medieval castle in Bojnice, Slovakia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bojnice Zoo

    The Slovak National Zoological Garden is a 42-hectare zoo in the town of Bojnice, Slovakia. It is the oldest and most visited of Slovak zoos, being established in 1955.

    200 m · zoo in Bojnice, Slovakia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Niké Aréna

    The Niké Aréna is an indoor arena located in Prievidza, Slovakia. It is used as a sports arena, and is the current home of the Slovak basketball club BC Prievidza.

    1.7 km · indoor arena in Prievidza, Slovakia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Castle

    It is one of the oldest monuments in Slovakia; it has become the national museum.

  2. 02
    Zoo

    This is the oldest, but also one of the most modernised zoos, not only in Slovakia but also in central Europe.

  3. 03
    Prepošt

    11-m-long cave almost in the city centre, with rich history - people have lived here approx.

From Wikivoyage: Bojnice, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Bojnice Spa

    A mineral water spa with temperatures from 28 to 52 ºC.

From Wikivoyage: Bojnice, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

Square restaurant Muzika restaurant

From Wikivoyage: Bojnice, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Bojnice

Airports
Leoš Janáček Ostrava (OSR), 107 km · M. R. Štefánik (BTS), 121 km · Budapest Liszt Ferenc (BUD), 158 km
  • Bratislava → Bojnice
    130 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · €18–26
  • Mošnov → Bojnice
    106 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · Kč235–310
  • Budapest → Bojnice
    147 km · quickest by road, 4h 27m · Ft4,420–5,900
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bojnice

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bojnice. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    644 km
  2. 02
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    657 km
  3. 03
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    677 km
  4. 04
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    853 km
  5. 05
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    870 km

If you know how people move in Bojnice – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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