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Izola

Izola is an ancient Mediterranean town with a lively history on the Slovenian coast. The old part of the town rests upon what once used to be an island, which is where its name comes from.
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  • Type: Town with 11,300 residents
  • Description: historical harbor town in Slovenia
  • Also known as: “Ižla” and “Izola / Isola”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Roman villa and port Haliaetum Isola and Izola City Stadium.

Archaeological site
Photo: Svenkaj, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Haliaetum was a Roman port that stood in the area of Simon Bay, next to the modern village of , on the northern Adriatic coast of the .

Stadium
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is a multi-use stadium in Izola, Slovenia. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of MNK Izola. The stadium has a capacity of 5,085 seats.

Marina
The lies in the town of Izola. The marina has berths for about 620 boats with a length of up to 30 m and a depth of 4.5 m. In addition, there is also a holiday resort with a hotel and many different attractions such as tennis courts, swimming pool and casino.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Koper and Portorož.

Photo: Grant Bishop, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the fifth-largest city in . Located in the Istrian region in the southwestern part of the country, is the main urban center of the Slovene coast.

Photo: Grant Bishop, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a Slovenian Adriatic seaside resort and spa settlement located in the Municipality of Piran in southwestern . Its modern development began in the late 19th century with the vogue for the first health resorts.

Village
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is a settlement on the Adriatic coast in the Municipality of Izola in the Littoral region of . It is an urbanized settlement directly southwest of the town of Izola and was created from dispersed farmsteads in the area known as and the hamlets of Kane, Kanola, Kažanova, Kostrlag, Lavore, Liminjan, Loret, Montekalvo, and Šalet.

Izola

Latitude
45.5399° or 45° 32′ 24″ north
Longitude
13.6594° or 13° 39′ 34″ east
Population
11,300
Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)
United Nations Location Code
SI IZO
Open location code
8FQMGMQ5+XQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29098904
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3199017
Wiki­data ID
Q15877
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Izola” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Izola”
  • Arabic: “إيزولا”
  • Armenian: “Իզոլա (Սլովենիա)”
  • Armenian: “Իզոլա”
  • Asturian: “Izola”
  • Basque: “Izola”
  • Belarusian: “Ізола”
  • Bengali: “ইজুলা”
  • Bosnian: “Izola”
  • Bulgarian: “Изола”
  • Catalan: “Izola”
  • Cebuano: “Izola”
  • Chechen: “Изола (Словения)”
  • Chechen: “Изола”
  • Chinese: “伊佐拉”
  • Croatian: “Izola”
  • Czech: “Izola”
  • Danish: “Izola”
  • Dutch: “Izola”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايزولا”
  • Esperanto: “Izola”
  • Estonian: “Izola”
  • Finnish: “Izola”
  • French: “Izola”
  • Georgian: “იზოლა”
  • German: “Isola”
  • German: “Izola”
  • German: “SI-040”
  • Greek: “Ίζολα”
  • Gujarati: “ઇઝોલા”
  • Hebrew: “איזולה”
  • Hindi: “इज़ोला”
  • Hungarian: “Izola”
  • Indonesian: “Izola”
  • Irish: “Izola”
  • Italian: “Isola d’Istria”
  • Italian: “Isola”
  • Japanese: “イゾラ”
  • Kannada: “ಇಝೋಲಾ”
  • Korean: “이졸라”
  • Latin: “Insula Histriae”
  • Latin: “Insulae”
  • Latvian: “Izola”
  • Lithuanian: “Izola”
  • Macedonian: “Изола”
  • Malay: “Izola”
  • Marathi: “इज़ोला”
  • Moksha: “Изола”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Izola”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Izola”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Izola”
  • Persian: “ایزولا”
  • Polish: “Isola”
  • Polish: “Izola”
  • Portuguese: “Izola”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Izola”
  • Romanian: “Izola”
  • Russian: “Изола”
  • Serbian: “Izola”
  • Serbian: “Изола”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Izola”
  • Sinhala: “ඉසොලා”
  • Slovak: “Izola”
  • Slovenian: “Izola”
  • Slovenian: “Mestno jedro”
  • Slovenian: “Občina Izola”
  • Spanish: “Izola”
  • Swedish: “Izola”
  • Tamil: “இஸ்யோலா”
  • Tatar: “Изола”
  • Telugu: “ఇజోలా”
  • Thai: “อีซอลา”
  • Turkish: “Izola”
  • Ukrainian: “Ізола”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Izola”
  • Urdu: “یزولا”
  • Venetian: “Isola (Xlovenia)”
  • Venetian: “Isola”
  • Vietnamese: “Izola”
  • Welsh: “Isola”
  • Welsh: “Izola”
  • “Izola”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Izola”. Photo: Meho29, CC BY-SA 3.0.