Celje
Celje is the third-largest city in Slovenia.
Celje is the third-largest city in Slovenia. It is a regional center of the traditional Slovenian region of Styria and the administrative seat of the Urban Municipality of Celje. The town is located below Upper Celje Castle at the confluence of the Savinja, Hudinja, Ložnica, and Voglajna rivers in the lower Savinja Valley, and at the crossing of the roads connecting Ljubljana, Maribor, Velenje, and the Central Sava Valley.
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Worth seeing in and around Celje
4 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.
- 01Stadion Z'dežele
Stadion Z'dežele is a football stadium in Celje, Slovenia. It is the home ground of NK Celje and has a seating capacity of 13,059.
1.2 km · football stadium · Wikipedia - 02Celje Castle
Celje Castle, also known as Celje Upper Castle or Old Castle, is a castle ruin in Celje, Slovenia, formerly the seat of the Counts of Celje. It stands on three hills to the southeast of Celje, where the river Savinja meanders into the Laško valley.
1.8 km · medieval castle above Celje, Slovenia · Wikipedia - 03Zlatorog Arena
Zlatorog Arena is an indoor sporting arena located in Celje, Slovenia which opened in December 2003. The arena has a capacity for 5,191 spectators.
1.4 km · indoor sporting arena in Celje, Slovenia · Wikipedia - 04Skalna Klet
Skalna Klet Sports Centre or simply Skalna Klet is a multi-purpose stadium in Celje, Slovenia. Opened in 1904, the stadium underwent several renovations, most recently in 2019.
1.2 km · sports stadium in Slovenia · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
The downtown part of Celje is very old, and very beautiful. There are two churches, as well as an "Old Celje" section.
- 01Stari Grad
- 02Laško
- 03Lemberg
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Things to do
The obvious thing to do in Celje is simply walk, and take in the amazing views of all the historic buildings. Spend a whole day just walking around and taking pictures. In some places, they have the original cobblestone roads, which are beautiful. The old part of town is rather sleepy, so there's usually not much to do besides sightseeing.
- 01Šmatinsko Jezero
From Wikivoyage: Celje, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Celje
- Airports
- Ljubljana Jože Pučnik (LJU), 62 km · Zagreb Franjo Tuđman (ZAG), 83 km · Klagenfurt (KLU), 84 km
- Stations
- Celje railway station, 800 m · Celje Airport, 3.3 km
- Zgornji Brnik → Celje60 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · €8–11
- Velika Gorica → Celje86 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · €12–17
- Klagenfurt am Wörthersee → Celje85 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · €14–20
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No local-transport research exists yet for Celje
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 Celje. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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