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Podim 2023 venue information

PODIM Conference 2023 is happening between two 1-minute-walking-distance places in the heart of Maribor city center:

With a beautiful view of the river Drava, you’ll enjoy the old town of Maribor with a pinch of the modern touch! Dobrodošli – Welcome!

Slovenia

Slovenia lies in the heart of Europe, where the Alps meet the Mediterranean sea and the Pannonian Plain meets the Karst. This small green country measures 20,273 km2 in area, and is home to sincere, hospitable people of great diligence. It has an exceptional number of top athletes, and a wealth of cultural creativity. In Slovenia, it is not difficult to compare the value of goods and services, as they are priced in one of the world’s major currencies, the Euro.

Currency: Euro
Time zone: CET (UTC +1)
Temperature in May: 15 – 17 degrees
Safety: Slovenia is amongst top 10 safest countries in the world
Second language: English (people speak English very well)
Population: 2 mio
GDP per capita: 28.000$> More about Slovenia

Source: I Feel Slovenia

Directions

By plane

Maribor has an international airport, i.e. the Edvard Rusjan Airport or simply just the Maribor Airport that provides some regular flight connections. Nearby airports are also in:

Ljubljana (Slovenia),
Graz (Austria),
Zagreb (Croatia) and
Klagenfurt (Austria).

Airports in Ljubljana, Graz and Klagenfurt are also destinations of the low-cost carriers easyJet (Ljubljana) and Ryanair (Klagenfurt and Graz). The Graz Airport is the closest to Maribor: trains from the Graz Airport to Maribor leave six times a day, and the journey takes about an hour and a half.

By train

The Maribor train station is situated in the eastern part of the Maribor city centre (at Partizanska cesta 50). By train, you can travel to Maribor from for example:

Vienna Meidling – Maribor (3 h 30 m)
Graz – Maribor (1 h)
Venezia Santa Lucia – Ljubljana – Maribor (9 – 10 h)
Zagreb – Dobova – Zidani most – Celje – Pragersko – Maribor (3 h 30 min)
Budapest – Vienna – Graz – Maribor (6 h 30 m)
Budapest – Hodoš – Murska Sobota – Ormož – Ptuj – Pragersko – Maribor (6 h 30 m)
Budapest – Murakerestur – Zagreb – Maribor (13 h 30 m)
Prague – Vienna – Maribor (9 h)

You can find more connections and schedule information at Slovenian Railways (Slovenske železnice).

By car

By car, you can travel to the Maribor region from the direction of:

Ljubljana (Slovenia) on the A1/E57,
Zagreb (Croatia) on the E59,
Budapest (Hungary) on the E59/E65/E71/M7 and
Trieste (Italy) on the E57/E70.

Maribor is located only a few minutes from the Austrian border. You can travel to Maribor from the direction of:

Graz on the A9/E57/E59,
Klagenfurt on the road B80/B70 and
Villach on the B80/B70/E66/B83.

The distance between Maribor and other capitals countries is:

Ljubljana 123 km (Slovenia)
Zagreb 110 km (Croatia),
Sarajevo 487 km (Bosnia and Herzegovina),
Belgrade 512 km (Serbia),
Podgorica 703 km (Montenegro) and
Skopje 945 km (Macedonia).

The distance between Maribor and other European cities is:

Paris 1299 km
Venice 365 km
Prague 548 km
Budapest 340 km
Berehove 653 km
Shkodra 759 km
Hamburg 1163 km
London 1488 km
Nordkapp 3699 km
Lisbon 2739 km
Belgorod 1925 km

Thessaloniki 1134 km
Frankfurt 1050 km
Graz 68 km
Milan 622 km
Munich 493 km
Salzburg 352 km
Split 460 km
Trieste 216 km
Vienna 255 km
Zurich 803 km