--- title: "Virunum – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Virunum, Austria: Claudium Virunum was a Roman city in the province of Noricum, on today's Zollfeld in the Austrian State of Carinthia. Nearby: Church of…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/virunum" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/virunum.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Maria_Saal_Zollfeld_Virunum_Arena_Suedteil_22092006_02.jpg/3840px-Maria_Saal_Zollfeld_Virunum_Arena_Suedteil_22092006_02.jpg" --- Roman settlement · Austria # Virunum Claudium Virunum was a Roman city in the province of Noricum, on today's Zollfeld in the Austrian State of Carinthia. ![Virunum](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Maria_Saal_Zollfeld_Virunum_Arena_Suedteil_22092006_02.jpg/3840px-Maria_Saal_Zollfeld_Virunum_Arena_Suedteil_22092006_02.jpg) Virunum · Wikimedia Commons The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virunum), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. Church 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Saal_Cathedral) 2. Hörzendorfer 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6rzendorfer_See) 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. Go there ## Getting to Virunum **Airports:** Klagenfurt (KLU), 7 km · Ljubljana Jože Pučnik (LJU), 53 km · Graz (GRZ), 88 km\ - Feldkirchen bei Graz → Virunum Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/feldkirchen-bei-graz-to-virunum) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Feldkirchen+bei+Graz&to=Virunum) - Salzburg → Virunum Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/salzburg-to-virunum) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Salzburg&to=Virunum) - Linz → Virunum Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/linz-to-virunum) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Linz&to=Virunum) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Virunum) Not yet researched ## 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. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Go next You can either drive up (take care in winter) or take the cable car. - Go next From the parking space/cable car station it's an hour's walk to the summit. - Go next The cable car station at the mountain's base at Annenheim can be reached by bus or train, though connections are poor. - Go next Since 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](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Klagenfurt), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Hvar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hvar) HR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 427 km 2. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 462 km 3. [Korčula](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/korcula) HR 9 ways of moving, 33 sources 469 km 4. [Mljet](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mljet) HR 9 ways of moving, 28 sources 506 km 5. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 513 km If you know how people move in Virunum – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cvirunum&title=Virunum&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fvirunum), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Virunum - [Maria Saal](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/maria-saal) municipality in Klagenfurt-Land District, Carinthia, Austria 2.4 km [The place page for Virunum](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/virunum) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Austria](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-AT) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/virunum, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt