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Banská Štiavnica
A UNESCO-listed historic mining town with Renaissance palaces, open-air mining museums, and scenic artificial lakes called tajchy.
15 km · about 30 min drive
Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia · Europe
Žiar nad Hronom is worth a stop: 25 minutes from Kremnica, 29km from Bojnice Castle.
Žiar nad Hronom is a town located in Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia. With a population of 16,955, it is an important destination in Europe.
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Žiar nad Hronom (; slang: Žiar, German: Heiligenkreuz, Hungarian: Garamszentkereszt; until 1920 Svätý Kríž and until 1955 Svätý Kríž nad Hronom) is a city in Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia.
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Žiar nad Hronom is located in Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia, Europe. The coordinates are 48.5918 latitude, 18.8496 longitude.
Žiar nad Hronom has a population of approximately 16,955 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.
15 km · about 30 min drive
castle
A romantic neo-Gothic chateau of fairytale spires above a spa town, Slovakia's most-visited castle.
29 km · about 35 min drive
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A steep copper-mining village at 728 m above Banská Bystrica, mined since the Bronze Age, its miners' houses stacked around a square with a 162-step covered wooden staircase climbing to the 13th-century church.
32 km · about 35 min drive
mountain pass
A 960 m mountain resort saddle on Route 59 between Banska Bystrica and Ruzomberok, threading between the Low Tatras and Great Fatra with a flowing climb popular among Slovak drivers.
42 km · about 50 min drive
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The world's first folk-architecture reserve: a mountain village of dark log houses painted with white geometric patterns, a tradition some 200 years old that inspired Slovakia's Olympic team designs.
47 km · about 55 min drive
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A remarkably well-preserved UNESCO village of traditional log houses representing a complete example of a medieval central European settlement.
59 km · about 70 min drive
April to October
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