Maria Saal
Maria Saal is a market town in the district of Klagenfurt-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia.

Maria Saal is a market town in the district of Klagenfurt-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia. It is located in the east of the historic Zollfeld plain, the wide valley of the Glan River. The municipality includes the cadastral communes of Kading, Karnburg, Möderndorf, Possau and St. Michael am Zollfeld.
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Worth seeing in and around Maria Saal
One place 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.
- 01Church of the Assumption of Mary, Maria Saal
The Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption of Mary, also called Maria Saal Cathedral, is a Catholic church in the town of Maria Saal in Carinthia, Austria. Though not the see of a bishop, the church building is a renowned monument of Late Gothic architecture and one of Carinthia's most visited landmarks.
400 m · parish church · Wikipedia
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Getting to Maria Saal
- Airports
- Klagenfurt (KLU), 5 km · Ljubljana Jože Pučnik (LJU), 52 km · Graz (GRZ), 90 km
- Feldkirchen bei Graz → Maria Saal92 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · €14–19
- Salzburg → Maria Saal159 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · €22–31
- Linz → Maria Saal181 km · quickest by road, 3h 23m · €24–34
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No local-transport research exists yet for Maria Saal
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 Maria Saal. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextYou can either drive up (take care in winter) or take the cable car.
- Go nextFrom the parking space/cable car station it's an hour's walk to the summit.
- Go nextThe cable car station at the mountain's base at Annenheim can be reached by bus or train, though connections are poor.
- Go nextSince the Soca valley is actually easier to reach from Villach and Klagenfurt than Ljubliana (Slovenia's capital) it's well worth a day trip if you're hanging around Carinthia for longer.
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