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Stična

Stična is a village in the Municipality of Ivančna Gorica in central Slovenia.

Stična
Stična · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Stična is a village in the Municipality of Ivančna Gorica in central Slovenia. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola. The municipality is now included in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region.

It lies just north of Ivančna Gorica and is best known for its Cistercian Abbey. The abbey dates to the 12th century and is the oldest monastery in Slovenia. It includes the hamlets of Rupe, Štorovje, and Svinjska Vas. A former hamlet named Kaffeehaus also stood between Svinjska Vas and Rupe.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Stična

2 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
    Stična abbey

    Stična Abbey is the oldest monastery in Slovenia. It is the only Cistercian monastery in the country still operating.

    100 m · Slovenian abbey · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Podsmreka Castle

    Podsmreka Castle is a 16th-century mansion in the settlement of Podsmreka pri Višnji Gori, in the Municipality of Ivančna Gorica, southeastern Slovenia. The manor's name is a compound of the Slovene words pod and smreka, meaning 'beneath [the] spruce'.

    3 km · 16th-century mansion in Slovenia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Stična

Airports
Ljubljana Jože Pučnik (LJU), 40 km · Klagenfurt (KLU), 84 km · Rijeka (RJK), 84 km
  • Klagenfurt am Wörthersee → Stična
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · €12–17
  • Rijeka(Omišalj) → Stična
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · €17–24
  • Velika Gorica → Stična
    101 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · €12–17
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No local-transport research exists yet for Stična

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThey can be good for day trips, though bus and railway connections between these airports and Slovenia are lackluster.
  • Get inTo drive from neighbouring countries, you can: via A59 from Graz, Austria through Sentilj via SS14/NSA362 from Trieste, Italy via M7 from Nagykanizsa, Hungary via E70 from Zagreb, Croatia There is a fast ferry between Venice and Izola, running with an irregular schedule mainly during the summer season (for the timetable see ).
  • Get in[http://www.venezialines.com/ Venezialines run one fast ferry per week between Venice and Piran.

From Wikivoyage: Slovenia, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

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  2. 02
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  3. 03
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  4. 04
    Cinque TerreIT

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  5. 05
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

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