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Popovec

Popovec is a village in Croatia.

Popovec
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The place

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.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Zagreb Zoo

    Zoo

    9.7 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Maksimir Park

    Park in Croatia

    9.5 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Dotrščina Memorial Park

    Memorial park in Zagreb, Croatia

    8.7 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Stadion ŠRC Sesvete

    Football stadium in Sesvete, Croatia

    2.9 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Museum of Serbs of Croatia

    Defunct museum in Zagreb

    7.7 km · 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.

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Getting to Popovec

Airports
Zagreb Franjo Tuđman (ZAG), 13 km · Banja Luka (BNX), 136 km · Ljubljana Jože Pučnik (LJU), 136 km
  • Rijeka(Omišalj) → Popovec
    141 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · €18–25
  • Pula → Popovec
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Zadar → Popovec
    206 km · quickest by road, 4h 24m · €31–43
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Zagreb, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    299 km
  2. 02
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    331 km
  3. 03
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    363 km
  4. 04
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    541 km
  5. 05
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    649 km

If you know how people move in Popovec – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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