Vilenica Cave

Vilenica Cave or Vilenica Cave at Lokev is the oldest show cave in Europe. The first tourists to the cave were recorded in 1633. It is located next to the village of in the municipality of on the Karst Plateau in southwestern .
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Photo: Tiesse, Public domain.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St. Michael’s Parish Church and The Chapel of Saint Anthony of Padua.

Church
Photo: Marino-sl, Public domain.
is situated 2 km southeast of Vilenica Cave.

Church
Photo: János Korom Dr., CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a church, which is situated 2½ km west of Vilenica Cave.

Peak
Photo: Rupikaber, Public domain.
Mount Cocusso is a mountainous relief on the border between and . It is the highest mountain in the . is situated 3½ km southwest of Vilenica Cave.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lokev and Plešivica.

Village
Photo: Marino-sl, Public domain.
is a settlement in the in the Littoral region of , close to the border with .

Hamlet
is a small west of in the in the Littoral region of .

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0.
is a village in the region of . It is famous for the pure white Lipizzaner horses that have been bred in the area for 400 years.

Vilenica Cave

Latitude
45.67448° or 45° 40′ 28″ north
Longitude
13.91181° or 13° 54′ 43″ east
Elevation
418 metres (1,371 feet)
Operator
Jamarsko društvo Sežana
Open location code
8FQMMWF6+QP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 670652036
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cave_entrance
Wiki­data ID
Q2722886
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Vilenica Cave” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كهف فيلينيتسا”
  • Bosnian: “Vilenica”
  • Croatian: “Vilenica”
  • Czech: “Vilenica”
  • Dutch: “Vilenica Cave”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كهف فيلينيكا”
  • German: “Feenhöhle”
  • Italian: “grotta di Corgnale”
  • Italian: “Grotta di Corgnale”
  • Italian: “Grotta Vilenica”
  • Japanese: “ヴィレニツァ洞窟”
  • Japanese: “ヴィレニツァ鍾乳洞”
  • Latvian: “Viļenica”
  • Macedonian: “Виленица (пештера)”
  • Macedonian: “Виленица”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vilenica”
  • Norwegian: “Vilenica”
  • Persian: “غار ویله‌نیتسا”
  • Polish: “Vilenica”
  • Slovenian: “Jama Vilenica”
  • Slovenian: “Vilenica”
  • Swedish: “Vilenicagrottan”

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