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Mamula
Guarding the entrance to the bay, the circular splat of Mamula is only 200m in diameter. It’s named after the Austro-Hungarian general who in the mid-19th century created the fort still standing on the island, which became an infamous Italian prison during WWII.The island’s a stop
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St Matthews & St Eustaces
Dobrota’s most distinctive features are its two large Catholic churches. St Matthew’s (Crkva Sv Mateja; 1670) is the older of the two and wears a baroque frontage, a well-proportioned dome and a tall steeple. Cavernous St Eustace’s (Crkva Sv Eustahija) dates from 1773 but has a 19t
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Jaz Beach
The blue waters and broad sands of Jaz Beach look spectacular when viewed from high up on the Tivat road. While its not built up like Budva and Bečići, the beach is still lined with loungers, sun umbrellas and noisy beach bars. Head down the Budva end of the beach for a little more
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Njeguši
On the northern edge of the park, this endearing collection of stone houses is famous for two things: being the home village of the Petrović dynasty, Montenegros most important rulers, and for making the country’s best pršut (smoke-dried ham) and sir (cheese). Roadside stalls sell
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Heritage Museum
Trg Borca contains a stirring statue of a young man and woman marching forward, guns and communist flag aloft. They look like they’re about to liberate the museum building, which served as a prison during WWII. Inside, the collection consists mainly of photos and there aren’t any E
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Ganića Kula
Residential towers of this sort were once common throughout eastern Montenegro, Kosovo and Albania. Not just a defence against invaders, a kula was particularly useful for protecting the menfolk during interfamily blood feuds. There are gun slits on the bottom floor and only small
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Piva Monastery
This Serbian Orthodox monastery holds the distinction of being the only one to be built during the Ottoman occupation. It was constructed between 1573 and 1586 with the permission of the Ottoman Grand Vizier, who was a relative of its founder. The Muslim Vizier was given the unusua
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Mother Theresa statue
In better nick than the Liberty Monument is the statue of Mother Theresa, the most famous Albanian of recent years (although she was actually born in Macedonia), which stands in front of the clinic on the boulevard named after her. On the corner adjacent to the statue, there’s an i
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St Luke’s Church
Sweet little St Luke’s speaks volumes about the history of Croat-Serb relations in Kotor. It was constructed in 1195 as a Catholic church but from 1657 until 1812 a Catholic and Orthodox altar stood side by side, with each faith taking turns to hold services here. It was then gifte
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Šetalište Pet Danica
Named after five young women, all called Danica, who died during WWII, this pedestrian promenade stretches along the waterfront for over 5km from Igalo to Meljine. Its lined with summer bars, shops, concrete swimming platforms and the odd rocky cove, and in places it ducks in and
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Drobni Pijesak
Hidden in a secluded cove between Sveti Stefan and Rijeka Reževići, Drobni Pijesak is a 240m stretch of ‘ground sand’ (which is the literal translation of the name) surrounded by green hills and turquoise waters. Every year on 28 June the elders of the 12 Paštrović clans hold the B
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Njegoš Museum
This castle-like palace was the residence of Montenegro’s favourite son, prince-bishop and poet Petar II Petrović Njegoš. It was built and financed by the Russians in 1838 and housed the nation’s first billiard table, hence the museum’s alternative name, Biljarda. The bottom floor
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Ulica Njegoševa
Herceg Novis Stari Grad is at its most impressive when approached from the pedestrian-only section of Ulica Njegoševa, which is paved in the same shiny marble as Dubrovnik and lined in elegant, mainly 19th-century buildings. The street terminates in cafe-ringed Trg Nikole Ðurkovića
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Sveti Stefan Beach
The main point of coming to Sveti Stefan is to spend as much time horizontal as possible, with occasional breaks to saunter from your recliner to the sea for a cooling dip. The water here gets deep quickly, as if the surrounding mountains could hardly be bothered adjusting their s
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Dobrilovina Monastery
Near the eastern boundary of the national park, 28km from Mojkovac, this monastery has an idyllic setting in lush fields hemmed in by the mountains and Tara River. Dont be fooled by the tranquility; this complex has been destroyed and rebuilt several times since it was founded (so
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Rose
At the peninsula’s very tip you’ll find this sleepy fishing village (pronounced with two syllables: ro-seh), a blissful stand of stone houses gazing at Herceg Novi across the sparkling waters of the bay. Outside summer, village life winds down to near inertia but from May to Septem
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Public Sculpture
For a city formerly known as Titograd (literally ‘Tito-city’), there is an inordinate number of royal sculpture dotted around its many parks. The most imposing is the huge bronze statue of Petar I Petrović Njegoš standing on a black marble plinth on the Cetinje edge of town. A larg
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Sveti Marko & Gospa od Milosti
Two more islands stretch out in a line from Ostrvo Cvijeća (Island of Flowers) but you’ll need a boat to access them (a taxi boat from Tivat or Herceg Novi will do the trick). The larger, heavily forested Sveti Marko (St Mark) used to be a Club Med and you can still see the huts po
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Slovenska Plaža Tourist Village
Anyone with an interest in Yugoslav-era architecture will find this large resorts spacious socialism-meets-Spanish-Mission aesthetic fascinating. Mature trees and modern sculpture are scattered between the terracotta-tiled units connected by white colonnades, and there’s a swimming
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History Museum
Housed in Cetinje’s most imposing building, the former parliament (1910), this fascinating museum is well laid out, following a timeline from the Stone Age to 1955. There are few English signs but the enthusiastic staff will walk you around and give you an overview before leaving y
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