Brežice
Brežice is a town in eastern Slovenia in the Lower Sava Valley, near the Croatian border.
Brežice is a town in eastern Slovenia in the Lower Sava Valley, near the Croatian border. It is the seat of the Municipality of Brežice. It lies in the center of the Brežice Plain, which is part of the larger Krka Flat. The area was traditionally divided between Lower Styria and Lower Carniola. The entire municipality is now included in the Lower Sava Statistical Region.
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Worth seeing in and around Brežice
2 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.
- 01Brežice Castle
Brežice Castle is a 16th-century castle in the town of Brežice, in southeastern Slovenia, at the street address Cesta prvih borcev 1. As with the town, the castle's name derives from the diminutive plural of the Slovene word breg, 'riverbank', in reference to the nearby Sava and Krka rivers.
600 m · castle in Slovenia · Wikipedia - 02Brežice Water Tower
The Brežice Water Tower was built in 1914, together with a city sewage system and electrification. It used to serve as the water supply for Brežice until the new water house was built below Šentvid Hill above the town.
400 m · water tower in Brežice, Slovenia · 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.
What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Brežice Castle
The dominant feature of the town, standing above the left bank of the Sava.
- 02Vodovodni
- 03Church of St
The church was built in 1782 in the Romanesque style.
- 04Neviodunum
A former Roman settlement, stone columns and floor plans of buildings are outdoors, while most of the excavations are in Slovenian museums.
- 05Mokrice
A castle built in 1444 that has been converted into a hotel with a golf course.
From Wikivoyage: Brežice, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
- 01Terme Toplice
From Wikivoyage: Brežice, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Brežice
- Airports
- Zagreb Franjo Tuđman (ZAG), 41 km · Ljubljana Jože Pučnik (LJU), 95 km · Rijeka (RJK), 111 km
- Stations
- Brežice railway station, 2 km · Dobova railway station, 4.7 km
- Zgornji Brnik → Brežice93 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · €13–18
- Velika Gorica → Brežice43 km · quickest by road, 58 min · €5–7
- Rijeka(Omišalj) → Brežice111 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · €18–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for Brežice
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 Brežice. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Brežice
Brežice is 31 km from Zagreb, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Municipality of Brežicemunicipality of Slovenia1.2 km
- Dvorcesettlement in Slovenia2.8 km
- Pesjevillage in Styria, Slovenia5 km
- Mostecvillage in Brežice Municipality, Slovenia2.7 km
- Gorenje Skopicehuman settlement3.8 km
- Račja vassettlement in Slovenia5 km