Turčianske Teplice works well as a base: 10 minutes from Mošovce, 55km from Demänovská Ice Cave.
Turčianske Teplice is in Žilina Region, Slovakia, with about 6,200 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Mošovce, about 6 km away.
Turčianske Teplice (; German: Bad Stuben; Hungarian: Stubnyafürdő) is a town in central Slovakia in the Žilina Region. It is about halfway between Martin and Kremnica. The town's population is around 6,500. The town was the historic center of the Upper Turiec subregion within the Turiec region (comitatus), and nowRead more enjoys the status of a capital of the Turčianske Teplice District.
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.
21 km · about 25 min drive
castle
Bojnice Castle
A romantic neo-Gothic chateau of fairytale spires above a spa town, Slovakia's most-visited castle.
23 km · about 25 min drive
mountain pass
Donovaly 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.
27 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
Čičmany
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.
27 km · about 30 min drive
castle
Strecno Castle
A dramatic 14th-century ruin perched on a limestone crag directly above the Vah river gorge, towering over the busy Zilina–Martin road in one of Slovakia's most photographed roadside views.
35 km · about 40 min drive
landmark
Vlkolínec
A remarkably well-preserved UNESCO village of traditional log houses representing a complete example of a medieval central European settlement.
36 km · about 40 min drive
landmark
Banská Štiavnica
A UNESCO-listed historic mining town with Renaissance palaces, open-air mining museums, and scenic artificial lakes called tajchy.
45 km · about 50 min drive
natural wonder
Demänovská Ice Cave
A spectacular cave system in the Low Tatras featuring permanent ice formations, frozen waterfalls, and underground lakes.
55 km · about 65 min drive
Driving roads near Turčianske Teplice
3 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 100km.
27 kmDonovaly PassA 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.
64 kmCertovica PassThe 'Devil's Pass' carries Route 72 over the spine of the Low Tatras at 1,238 m: the highest paved road pass in Slovakia, with hairpin descents on both flanks and big ridge-top views.