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Karviná

Karviná is a city in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic.

Karviná
Karviná · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Karviná is a city in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 49,000 inhabitants. It lies on the Olza River in the Ostrava Basin, on the border with Poland, in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Karviná

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
    Městský stadion

    Městský stadion Karviná is a football stadium in Karviná-Ráj in the Czech Republic. It is the home stadium of MFK Karviná.

    1.7 km · football stadium in the Czech Republic · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Most Sokolovských hrdinů (Darkov)

    Karviná-Darkov bridge is a reinforced concrete road bridge over the Olza River in Karviná-Darkov, Czech Republic. It is a distinctive dominant of Darkov.

    1.6 km · bridge in Czech Republic · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Monument to the fallen for Těšín Silesia

    Monument to fallen for Těšín Silesia is a monument in Orlová commemorating Czech victims of the Polish–Czechoslovak War and the following plebiscite period during the Polish–Czechoslovak dispute over Cieszyn Silesia. The monument was built in 1928, damaged during the Polish annexation of the territory in 1938–1939 and after the end of the World War II partially reconstructed.

    8.6 km · commemorative monument in Orlová, Czech Republic · 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

Fryštát Château (Karviná Château), Masarykovo náměstí, Karviná,. Tue-Sun 10:00-16:00 (Mon closed). Historic château in the centre of Karviná, surrounded by a large English-style park. Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Masarykovo náměstí, Karviná. Historic Gothic church near the main square and one of the city's important landmarks.

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

Go there

Getting to Karviná

Airports
Leoš Janáček Ostrava (OSR), 36 km · Katowice Wojciech Korfanty (KTW), 79 km · Kraków John Paul II (KRK), 92 km
  • Pardubice → Karviná
    199 km · quickest by road, 4h 7m · Kč350–465
  • Prague → Karviná
    296 km · quickest by road, 5h 22m · Kč540–720
  • České Budějovice → Karviná
    310 km · quickest by air, 5h 1m · Kč1,500–2,300
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Karviná

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 Karviná. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    759 km
  2. 02
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    774 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    792 km
  4. 04
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    796 km
  5. 05
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    909 km

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Around it

Next door to Karviná

  • Orlovátown in the Czech Republic8.1 km
  • Dolní Lutyněvillage in Karviná District of Moravian Silesian region9.6 km
  • Dětmarovicevillage in Karviná District of Moravian Silesian region7.4 km
  • Albrechticevillage in Karviná District of Moravian Silesian region7.6 km
  • Stonavavillage in Karviná District of Moravian Silesian region4.3 km
  • Horní Suchávillage in Moravian Silesian region, Czechia7.6 km