Municipality of Piran
The Municipality of Piran is a municipality in the traditional region of the Littoral in southwestern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Piran. Piran became a municipality in 1994.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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- Type: municipality of Slovenia with 17,700 residents
- Description: municipality of Slovenia
- Also known as: “Comune di Pirano”, “Občina Piran-Pirano”, and “Piran Municipality”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Portorož Airport and Sečovlje Salina Landscape Park.
Portorož Airport
Aerodrome
Portorož Airport is the smallest of three international airports in Slovenia. It is located near the village of Sečovlje, 6 km south of Portorož, and less than 300 m from the Croatian border.
Sečovlje Salina Landscape Park
Nature reserve
Sečovlje Saltpans Natural Park is a landscape park in southwestern Slovenia covering the area of Sečovlje Saltpans near the village of Sečovlje. The salt evaporation pond covers an area of 16.1 hectares, while saltworks lie along the mouth of the Dragonja River, covering an area of 650 hectares.
St. Blaise Church
Church
Photo: Haster, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. Blaise Church is situated 4½ km east of Municipality of Piran.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Portorož and Lucija.
Portorož
Photo: Grant Bishop, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Portorož is a Slovenian Adriatic seaside resort and spa settlement located in the Municipality of Piran in southwestern Slovenia. Its modern development began in the late 19th century with the vogue for the first health resorts.
Lucija
Suburb
Photo: Shabicht, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lucija is a settlement in the Municipality of Piran in the Slovene Istria region. With a population over 6,000, it is the largest settlement in Slovenia that is not a municipality in its own right.
Sečovlje
Village
Photo: Doremo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sečovlje is a settlement in the Municipality of Piran in the Littoral region of Slovenia.
Municipality of Piran
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Welsh—“Municipality of Piran” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ፒራን-ፒራኖ”
- Asturian: “Conceyu de Piran”
- Azerbaijani: “Piran bələdiyyəsi”
- Azerbaijani: “Piran-Pirano”
- Bengali: “পিরান-পিরানো”
- Catalan: “Piran”
- Cebuano: “Piran”
- Chechen: “Пиран (община)”
- Chechen: “Пиран”
- Chinese: “Piran Kong-siā”
- Chinese: “皮兰市镇”
- Chinese: “皮蘭市鎮”
- Croatian: “Općina Piran”
- Czech: “Občina Piran”
- Dutch: “Piran”
- Esperanto: “Občina Piran”
- French: “Municipalité de Piran”
- French: “Piran-Pirano”
- German: “Gemeinde Piran”
- German: “Piran-Pirano”
- German: “Piran”
- Hausa: “Piran-Pirano”
- Hungarian: “Piran község”
- Indonesian: “Munisipalitas Piran”
- Italian: “Comune di Pirano”
- Italian: “Pirano”
- Japanese: “ピラン-ピラーノ”
- Javanese: “Piran-Pirano”
- Kazakh: “Пиран-Пирано”
- Kirghiz: “Пиран-Пирано”
- Latin: “Municipium Pyrrhani”
- Macedonian: “Општина Пиран”
- Malay: “Piran-Pirano”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Piran Kong-siā”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Piran kommune”
- Oromo: “Piran-Pirano”
- Panjabi: “ਪਿਰਾਨ-ਪਿਰਾਨੋ”
- Persian: “پیران-پیرانو”
- Persian: “شهرداری پیران”
- Polish: “Gmina Piran”
- Portuguese: “Piran-Pirano”
- Pushto: “پيران-پيرانو”
- Romanian: “Comuna Piran”
- Russian: “Пиран”
- Serbian: “Opština Piran”
- Serbian: “Општина Пиран”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Piran”
- Slovenian: “Občina Piran”
- Somali: “Piran-Pirano”
- Spanish: “municipio de Piran”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Piran”
- Spanish: “Piran-Pirano”
- Spanish: “Piran”
- Swahili: “Piran-Pirano”
- Tajik: “Пиран-Пирано”
- Tatar: “Пиран (община)”
- Tatar: “Пиран-Пирано”
- Tatar: “Пиран”
- Thai: “เทศบาลปิราน”
- Turkish: “Piran”
- Ukrainian: “Пиран”
- Ukrainian: “Піран”
- Upper Sorbian: “Gmejna Piran”
- Upper Sorbian: “Piran”
- Uzbek: “Piran-Pirano”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Piran”
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