Virunum
Claudium Virunum was a Roman city in the province of Noricum, on today's Zollfeld in the Austrian State of Carinthia.
Claudium Virunum was a Roman city in the province of Noricum, on today's Zollfeld in the Austrian State of Carinthia. Virunum may also have been the name of the older Celtic-Roman settlement on the hilltop of Magdalensberg nearby.
Virunum (Virunensis) is today a Catholic titular see.
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Worth seeing in and around Virunum
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.
- 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.
2.5 km · parish church · Wikipedia - 02Hörzendorfer See
Hörzendorfer See is a lake of Carinthia, Austria. It is an artificial lake located approximately 3 km south of the town of Sankt Veit an der Glan at an elevation of about 517 m above sea level.
3.4 km · lake in Austria · Wikipedia
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Getting to Virunum
- Airports
- Klagenfurt (KLU), 7 km · Ljubljana Jože Pučnik (LJU), 53 km · Graz (GRZ), 88 km
- Feldkirchen bei Graz → VirunumTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Salzburg → VirunumTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Linz → VirunumTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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No local-transport research exists yet for Virunum
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 Virunum. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Klagenfurt, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Virunum
- Maria Saalmunicipality in Klagenfurt-Land District, Carinthia, Austria2.4 km