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Piran

Piran is a resort town in southwestern on the Gulf of Piran on the Adriatic Sea. It is one of the three major towns of Slovenian Istria. A bilingual city, with population speaking both Slovene and Italian, Piran is known for its medieval architecture, with narrow streets and compact houses.
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  • Type: Town with 3,790 residents
  • Description: coastal town of Slovenia
  • Also known as: “Grad Piran”, “Piran / Pirano”, and “Pirano”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tartini Square and Municipal House.

Photo: Grega Pirc, CC BY 3.0.
is the largest and main in Piran, . It was named after violinist and composer Giuseppe Tartini, of whom a monument was made in 1896.

Town hall
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is a town hall.

Museum
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Portorož and Lucija.

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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.

Suburb
Photo: Shabicht, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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. is situated 3½ km southeast of Piran.

Village
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is a settlement in the Municipality of Piran in the Littoral region of .

Piran

Latitude
45.5285° or 45° 31′ 43″ north
Longitude
13.5684° or 13° 34′ 6″ east
Population
3,790
Elevation
46 metres (151 feet)
United Nations Location Code
SI PIR
Open location code
8FQMGHH9+99
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29098903
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3193341
Wiki­data ID
Q1382
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Piran” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Piran”
  • Albanian: “Piran”
  • Arabic: “بيران”
  • Aragonese: “Piran”
  • Armenian: “Պիրան”
  • Asturian: “Piran”
  • Azerbaijani: “Piran”
  • Basque: “Piran”
  • Belarusian: “Піран”
  • Bengali: “পিরান”
  • Bosnian: “Piran”
  • Bulgarian: “Пиран”
  • Catalan: “Piran”
  • Cebuano: “Piran (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Piran”
  • Chechen: “Пиран”
  • Chinese: “皮兰”
  • Croatian: “Piran”
  • Czech: “Piran”
  • Danish: “Piran”
  • Dutch: “Piran”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيران”
  • Esperanto: “Piran”
  • Estonian: “Piran”
  • Finnish: “Piran”
  • French: “Piran”
  • Galician: “Piran”
  • Georgian: “პირანი”
  • German: “Piran”
  • Greek: “Πιράν”
  • Gujarati: “પિરાન”
  • Hebrew: “פיראן”
  • Hindi: “पिरान”
  • Hungarian: “Piran”
  • Icelandic: “Píran”
  • Indonesian: “Piran, Slovenia”
  • Irish: “Piran”
  • Italian: “Pirano”
  • Japanese: “ピラン”
  • Kannada: “ಪಿರಾನ್”
  • Korean: “피란”
  • Latin: “Piranum”
  • Latin: “Pyrrhanum”
  • Latvian: “Pirana”
  • Latvian: “Pirano”
  • Lithuanian: “Piranas”
  • Lombard: “Piran”
  • Luxembourgish: “Piran”
  • Macedonian: “Пиран”
  • Malay: “Piran”
  • Maltese: “Piran”
  • Marathi: “पिरान”
  • Moksha: “Пиран”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Piran”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Piran”
  • Norwegian: “Piran”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Piran”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੀਰਾਨ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੀਰਾਨੋ”
  • Persian: “پیران”
  • Polish: “Piran”
  • Polish: “Pirano”
  • Portuguese: “Piran”
  • Romanian: “Piran”
  • Russian: “Пиран”
  • Scots: “Piran”
  • Serbian: “Пиран”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Piran”
  • Sinhala: “පිරන්”
  • Slovak: “Piran”
  • Slovenian: “Občina Piran”
  • Slovenian: “Piran”
  • Slovenian: “Pirano”
  • Spanish: “Piran”
  • Swedish: “Piran”
  • Tamil: “பிரான்”
  • Tatar: “Пиран”
  • Telugu: “పిరాన్”
  • Thai: “ปิราน”
  • Turkish: “Piran”
  • Ukrainian: “Пиран”
  • Ukrainian: “Піран”
  • Urdu: “پیران”
  • Venetian: “Piràn”
  • Vietnamese: “Piran”
  • Welsh: “Piran Slofenia”
  • Welsh: “Piran”
  • Welsh: “Pirano”
  • “Piran”

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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 “Piran”. Photo: Dimitry Anikin, CC BY 2.0.