Built in 1886 on the ruins of the original Cetinje Monastery, this cute little church has a lovely gilded iconostasis but its main claim to fame is as the burial place of Cetinje’s founder, Ivan Crnojević, and Montenegro’s last sovereigns. If Nikola I and Milena were unpopular after fleeing the country for Italy during WWI, they received a hero’s welcome when their bodies were returned and interred in these white-marble tombs in 1989 during a three-hour Orthodox service. While still a part of communist Yugoslavia, a quarter of Montenegro’s population were reported to have attended and the royal couple’s great-grandson Crown Prince Nicholas (a Parisian architect) was mobbed by adoring royalist fans.
