Sveta Gora
Sveta Gora is a settlement in western Slovenia in the Municipality of Nova Gorica. It encompasses Holy Mount, above the Soča Valley and southwest of the Banjšice Plateau.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 682 metres
- Description: settlement in Nova Gorica, Slovenia
- Also known as: “Sveta gora”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sabotin and Solkan Bridge.
Sabotin
Peak
Photo: T137, Public domain.
Sabotin is 609-metre-high mountain ridge overlooking Gorizia, Nova Gorica, and Solkan on the border between Slovenia and Italy. At its foot stands the Solkan Bridge spanning the Soča River.
Solkan Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5 si.
The Solkan Bridge is a 219.7-meter arch bridge over the Soča River near Nova Gorica in western Slovenia. With an arch span of 85 meters, it is the world's longest stone arch railroad bridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Soča Valley and Gorizia.
Soča Valley
Photo: Malenki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Soča or Isonzo is a 138-kilometre long river that flows through western Slovenia and northeastern Italy. An Alpine river in character, its source lies in the Trenta Valley in the Julian Alps in northwestern Slovenia, at an elevation of 876 metres.
Gorizia
Photo: T137, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gorizia is a town and municipality in the autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia of northeast Italy. It is located at the foot of the Julian Alps, bordering Slovenia.
Solkan
Village
Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.
Solkan is a settlement in the Municipality of Nova Gorica in the Gorizia region of western Slovenia, at the border with Italy. Although it forms a single urban area with the city of Nova Gorica today, it has maintained the status of a separate urban settlement due to its history and the strong local identity of its residents.
Sveta Gora
- Categories: human settlement and landform
- Location: Nova Gorica, Coast and Karst, Slovenia, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
45.999° or 45° 59′ 56″ northLongitude
13.6557° or 13° 39′ 21″ eastElevation
682 metres (2,238 feet)Open location code
8FQMXMX4+J7OpenStreetMap ID
node 305938089OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakWikidata ID
Q3861984
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In Other Languages
From Bosnian to Slovenian—“Sveta Gora” goes by many names.
- Bosnian: “Sveta Gora”
- Croatian: “Sveta Gora”
- Dutch: “Sveta Gora”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل سڤيتا جورا”
- German: “Heiligenberg”
- German: “Sveta Gora”
- Hungarian: “Sveta Gora”
- Irish: “Sveta Gora”
- Italian: “Monte Santo di Gorizia”
- Italian: “Monte Santo”
- Japanese: “スヴェタ・ゴーラ”
- Macedonian: “Света Гора (село)”
- Macedonian: “Света Гора”
- Polish: “Sveta Gora”
- Romanian: “Sveta Gora, Nova Gorica”
- Romanian: “Sveta Gora”
- Russian: “Света-Гора”
- Serbian: “Света Гора (Нова Горица)”
- Serbian: “Света Гора”
- Slovenian: “Skalnica”
- Slovenian: “Sveta gora pri Gorici”
- Slovenian: “Sveta Gora pri Gorici”
- Slovenian: “Sveta Gora, Nova Gorica”
- Slovenian: “Sveta Gora”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Frančiškanski samostan Sveta gora and Marijanski muzej.
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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 Wikipedia page “Sveta Gora”. Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.