Jesenice
Jesenice is the tenth-largest town in Slovenia, located in the traditional province of Upper Carniola.
Jesenice is the tenth-largest town in Slovenia, located in the traditional province of Upper Carniola. It is the seat of the Municipality of Jesenice spanning the southern side of the Karawanks, along Slovenia's border with Austria to the north. Renowned as a mining town, its ironworks and metallurgy industries being the driving force of the town's historical development.
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Worth seeing in and around Jesenice
10 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.
- 01Podmežakla Hall
Podmežakla Hall is an indoor sporting arena located in Jesenice, Slovenia. It is the home of the HD Jesenice ice hockey team.
900 m · arena · Wikipedia - 02Ajdna
Ajdna is a peak in the Karawanks in the Municipality of Žirovnica in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. Access to it is easiest from the village of Potoki in the neighbouring Municipality of Jesenice.
5.6 km · mountain in Slovenia · Wikipedia - 03Lake Kreda
Lake Kreda is a man-made lake in the Radovna Valley in northwestern Slovenia. The lake got its name from the chalk that was mined in the area until 1985.
5.7 km · lake in Slovenia · Wikipedia - 04Mežakla
Mežakla is a long undulating plateau about 15 km long in the foothills of the Julian Alps above the town of Jesenice in northwestern Slovenia. It ranges from approximately 1,200 m to 1,593 m high.
4.6 km · mountain range · Wikipedia - 05Rožca
Rožca is a grassy high-elevation mountain pass over the western Karawanks. The saddle is located between Hrušica Peak and Mount Klek, and straddles the border between Slovenia and Austria, above the town of Jesenice.
5.9 km · mountain pass in the Karawanks at the border Carinthia / Slovenia · Wikipedia - 06Jesenice Mosque
The Jesenice Mosque is a Sunni mosque located in the town of Jesenice, Municipality of Jesenice, Slovenia, on Viktor Kejžar street, no 19. It is the center of the Jesenice jamaat.
500 m · mosque in Jesenice, Slovenia · Wikipedia - 07Kasarna
The Workers' Barracks is a historic building at 48 France Prešeren Street in the Stara Sava district of the town of Jesenice, northwestern Slovenia. Formerly a residential block, it now houses an ethnographic museum.
500 m · museum in Jessnice, Slovenia · Wikipedia - 08Kos Manor
The Kos Manor is a 16th-century manor house in the Murova neighborhood of Jesenice, Slovenia, at the street address of Cesta maršala Tita 64. It is one of four so-called "ironworks castles" built in the area during the 16th and early 17th centuries by owners of local iron-mining and -processing facilities, in what were then the clustered settlements of Plavž, Sava, Murova and Javornik, amalgamated into the town of Jesenice in 1929.
1 km · 16th-century mansion in Jesenice, Slovenia · Wikipedia - 09Pristava House
The Pristava House is a manor house in the Municipality of Jesenice in northern Slovenia. A popular excursion point, it is located above the settlement of Javorniški Rovt in the foothills of the Karawanks Alps, at an elevation of 975 metres.
3.1 km · Slovenian manor house · Wikipedia - 10Jesenice Upper Sava Museum
The Jesenice Upper Sava Museum is a regional museum based in the town of Jesenice and the neighboring Municipality of Kranjska Gora, both in northwestern Slovenia. The museum's name refers to the general area it documents, the upper Sava Dolinka Valley.
500 m · Local museum in Slovenia · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
The Jesenice Upper Sava Museum is made up of six components, three of which are in Jesenice:
- 01Bucellini–Ruard Manor
- 02Kos Manor
- 03Workers' Barracks
An ethnographic museum, originally a housing complex for iron industry workers.
From Wikivoyage: Jesenice, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
- 01Hike Golica Mountain
A picturesque mountain on the border, known for having its slopes covered in Narcissus flowers in the spring, and views of Julian Alps.
From Wikivoyage: Jesenice, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Jesenice
- Airports
- Klagenfurt (KLU), 31 km · Ljubljana Jože Pučnik (LJU), 39 km · Trieste (TRS), 82 km
- Stations
- Jesenice railway station, 400 m
- Ronchi dei Legionari/Trieste → Jesenice82 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · €18–25
- Feldkirchen bei Graz → Jesenice123 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · €20–27
- Rijeka(Omišalj) → Jesenice141 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · €20–27
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Jesenice
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 Jesenice. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThe traditional way to reach the lake's island is by a pletna boat, which resembles a huge gondola.
- Get aroundCycling off-road or off-track is not allowed in Slovenia.
From Wikivoyage: Bled, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Jesenice
- Municipality of Jesenicemunicipality in Slovenia900 m
- Slovenski Javornikhuman settlement1.8 km
- Potokihuman settlement in Slovenia4.9 km
- PernikiSlovenian settlement5.3 km