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Town in Styria, Slovenia · Municipality of Žalec

Žalec

Žalec is a town in central Slovenia.

Žalec
Žalec · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Žalec is a town in central Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Žalec. It lies in the valley of the lower course of the Savinja River west of Celje. The primary economic activity of the region is growing hops, which is reflected by the city's coat-of-arms. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Žalec

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.

  1. 01
    Hell Cave

    Hell Cave is a karst cave in the settlement of Zalog pri Šempetru in Slovenia.

    4.9 km · cave in Slovenia · 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 Žalec

Airports
Ljubljana Jože Pučnik (LJU), 54 km · Klagenfurt (KLU), 77 km · Graz (GRZ), 85 km
Stations
Celje Airport, 4.8 km
  • Zgornji Brnik → Žalec
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · €7–10
  • Klagenfurt am Wörthersee → Žalec
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · €13–19
  • Feldkirchen bei Graz → Žalec
    87 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · €12–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Žalec

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

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

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    359 km
  2. 02
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    398 km
  3. 03
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    433 km
  4. 04
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    488 km
  5. 05
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    572 km

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

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