Popovec
Popovec is a village in Croatia.

Popovec is a village in Croatia. It is connected by the D3 highway. It is formally a settlement (naselje) of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Popovec
5 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.
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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.
Getting to Popovec
- Airports
- Zagreb Franjo Tuđman (ZAG), 13 km · Banja Luka (BNX), 136 km · Ljubljana Jože Pučnik (LJU), 136 km
- Rijeka(Omišalj) → Popovec141 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · €18–25
- Pula → PopovecTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Zadar → Popovec206 km · quickest by road, 4h 24m · €31–43
- 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 Popovec
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 Popovec. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundBoth buses, trams and the funicular are operated by ZET.
- Get aroundA historic funicular railway (uspinjača in Croatian), one of the steepest and shortest in the world, operates between the lower and upper towns with a travel time of just one minute.
- Get aroundThe funicular operates every 10 minutes, but for a fee of (in addition to regular tickets for everyone on board), an immediate ride can be purchased.
- Get aroundFunicular Fare {| class="wikitable" |Funicular fare – one-way | |- |Emergency ride fare | |} ZET operate city buses, trams, funicular & Sljeme cable car.
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Next door to Popovec
Popovec is 13 km from Zagreb, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Sesvetedistrict and settlement in the City of Zagreb, Croatia3.3 km
- Maksimircity district of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia9.5 km
- Peščenica – Žitnjakcity district of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia9.4 km
- Andautoniaancient Roman settlement of Pannonia8.6 km
- Adamovecsettlement in the City of Zagreb, Croatia6 km
- Donja Dubravacity district of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia7.3 km