Sežana

Sežana (; ) is a town in the Slovenian Littoral region of Slovenia, near the border with Italy. It is the seat of the Municipality of Sežana. Sežana is located on the Karst Plateau, from Trieste, Italy, and from Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia.

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Sežana is a city in Slovenia that serves as the capital of the Municipality of Sežana. It is situated at an elevation of 368 meters above sea level and covers an area of 217.4 square kilometers. The city has a population of 11,842, comprising 3,130 females and 2,907 males. Its postal codes are 6210 and 6211, and it uses the license plate code KP.

The municipality shares borders with Trieste, Duino-Aurisina, Monrupino, and San Dorligo della Valle. Sežana is twinned with Gevgelija, Montbrison, Rab, and Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella. The local time zone is UTC+01:00 or UTC+02:00. The city’s official website is www.sezana.si.

Synthesized by Vinony from 44 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Meteo, Openweathermap, OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Vinony graph, Geo. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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Place details

Locality: Orlek
Region: Municipality of Sežana
Country: Slovenija
Population: 6,037
Timezone: Europe/Ljubljana

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Air quality

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PM2.5: 11.1 µg/m³
PM10: 13.6 µg/m³

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Key facts

Settlement.settlement_type: Town
Settlement.image_caption: From top, left to right: Overview of Sežana, Town Hall, Old Manor, Botanical garden greenhouse, Town center house, St. Martin's Church
Settlement.image_flag: Flag of Sežana.svg
Settlement.image_shield: Coat of arms of Sežana.svg
Settlement.pushpin_map: Slovenia
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: top
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Slovenia
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Slovenia
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Traditional region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Littoral
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Statistical region
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Coastal–Karst
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Sežana
Settlement.area_total_km2: 15.3
Settlement.population_as_of: 2020
Settlement.population_total: 6037

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Travel guide

Get around

thumb The Lipica stud farm (the white lipizzaner horses) is about 6 km from the town center and railway station. There is no regular public transport. You can call a taxi, which costs €10.

Taxi Sežana, cell: +386 70 11 01 21 Taxi Maki Sežana, cell: +386 31 67 54 48

Eat

There are many restaurants, pizzas and fast foods in the city.

Drink

You will find many bars in all the city area.

Sleep

There are many hotels in the city.

Go next

The following places are all a short ways away from Sežana: Lipica, home of the Lipizzaner horses is about 7 km to the west (6 km) Postojna and its cave system is a short drive east on the A1 (35 km) The Slovenian coastal towns of Koper, Izola, Piran and Portorož are 50-60 minutes away by car heading west on the A1. Trieste (Italy) is barely 17 km away (30 minutes by train and bus) and with frequent buses to the Slovenian and Croatian coast and boats to small towns on the Italian, Slovenian and Croatian coast it may be a good base for exploring the area.

Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Encyclopedic overview

9 sections

Contents

Name
History
Economy
Sights
Church
Gallery
Twin cities
References
External links

==Name== Sežana was attested in written sources in 1152 as in Cesan (and as Ses(s)ana in 1293 and Sexana in 1442). The name is of unclear origin. The early transcriptions do not support a connection with Saint Susanna or with the Friulian toponym Susáns. The presumed suffix -ana would indicate a Romance origin, making possible a derivation from the Latin personal name Sessius. Another possibility is derivation from the estate name *Sextiānum, and a Lombard origin of the name has also been suggested. In the 19th century the names Sessana and Sehsana were in official use.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sežana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.