Strečno
Strečno is a village and municipality in the Žilina District in the Žilina Region in North Slovakia.
Strečno is a village and municipality in the Žilina District in the Žilina Region in North Slovakia. It is located by the Váh River in the Malá Fatra Mts. Situated 7 km east from Žilina, Strečno is most famous for its gothic castle ruins.
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Worth seeing in and around Strečno
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.
- 01Strečno Castle
The Strečno Castle is a reconstructed ruin of a medieval castle of an irregular plan located in northern Slovakia, 12 km east of Žilina. The castle stands on a 103-metre-high calcite cliff above the international road E50 and village Strečno.
1.8 km · castle in Slovakia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Strečno
- Airports
- Leoš Janáček Ostrava (OSR), 79 km · Kraków John Paul II (KRK), 119 km · Katowice Wojciech Korfanty (KTW), 144 km
- Mošnov → Strečno77 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · Kč160–215
- Pardubice → Strečno242 km · quickest by road, 5h 13m · Kč435–580
- České Budějovice → Strečno321 km · quickest by road, 6h 38m · Kč580–770
- 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 Strečno
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 Strečno. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inŽilina has an airport but it is only used for private aviation and the occasional charter flights, so almost any journey to Žilina will involve a train, bus or taxi journey of at least two hours.
- Go nextDo a day trip: by train to Strecno, go to Strecno castle, cross river and go up to Starhrad and back.
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