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A UNESCO-listed historic mining town with Renaissance palaces, open-air mining museums, and scenic artificial lakes called tajchy.
50 km · about 60 min drive
Nitra Region, Slovakia · Europe
Jelenec sits on the route: 5 minutes from Žirany, 51km from Cachtice Castle.
Jelenec is a town located in Nitra Region, Slovakia. With a population of 2,116, it is an important destination in Europe.
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Jelenec (Hungarian: Gímes, formerly Ghymes) is a municipality and village in the Nitra District of the south-west of Slovakia, in the Nitra Region.
The village of Jelenec (also Gýmeš, Ghymes, Dymes and Gímes) lies below the southeastern spurs of the Tribeč mountain range at an altitude of 192 m above sea level. InRead more
terms of territorial and administrative division, it belongs to the Nitra Region and Nitra District. Its territory is built up of granitoid and sedimentary rocks (granites, quartzites, limestones, clays, sands). Some local minerals formed by hydrothermal mineralization are rare (e.g. ibaryte, lazulite, limonite and wad). Irregular seams of lignite coal, which are of variable quality, also occur in the Neogene sediments.
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Jelenec is located in Nitra Region, Slovakia, Europe. The coordinates are 48.3784 latitude, 18.2235 longitude.
Jelenec has a population of approximately 2,116 people, making it a town in Slovakia.
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A UNESCO-listed historic mining town with Renaissance palaces, open-air mining museums, and scenic artificial lakes called tajchy.
50 km · about 60 min drive
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