Urban Municipality of Maribor, Slovenia · Europe
Maribor is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Pekre, 20km from South Styrian Wine Road.
Maribor is in Urban Municipality of Maribor, Slovenia, with about 96,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Pekre, about 4 km away.
Maribor (UK: MARR-ib-or, US: MAR-, Slovene: [ˈmáːɾibɔɾ] ; also known by other historical names) is the second-largest city in Slovenia and the largest city of the traditional region of Lower Styria. It is the seat of the Urban Municipality of Maribor and the Drava Statistical Region. Maribor is also the economic,Read more
administrative, educational, and cultural centre of eastern Slovenia.
Maribor was first mentioned as a castle in 1164, as a settlement in 1209, and as a city in 1254. Like most Slovene ethnic territory, Maribor was under Habsburg rule until 1918, when Rudolf Maister and his men secured the city for the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, which then joined the Kingdom of Serbia to form the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1991 Maribor became part of independent Slovenia.
Maribor, along with the Portuguese city of Guimarães, was selected as the European Capital of Culture for 2012.
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Within an hour or so of Maribor: South Styrian Wine Road (20 km), Ptuj Castle (23 km), Johann Puch Museum Graz (57 km).
The nearest famous roads are South Styrian Wine Road, Solčava Panoramic Road and Ljubelj Pass (Loibl Pass).
Maribor is in Urban Municipality of Maribor, Slovenia, about 4 km from Pekre.
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famous road
Ribbon roads roll along vine-covered ridges on the Slovenian border between Ehrenhausen, Gamlitz and Leutschach, the 'Austrian Tuscany': dotted with Buschenschank taverns and klapotetz windmills.
20 km · about 25 min drive
castle
Castle above Ptuj, the oldest town in Slovenia, overlooking the Drava river and a Roman-era settlement site.
23 km · about 25 min drive
museum
In the last surviving hall of Johann Puch's original factory, some 2,500 exhibits trace Austria's own marque: Puch mopeds and motorcycles, the 500 microcar, and Haflinger and Pinzgauer off-roaders.
57 km · about 65 min drive
8 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
April to October
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