Tip: Heritage
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Fortress Strač
This fortress is a great attraction for true admirers of military themes. Many come from distant lands and foreign countries just to visit it and experience European military history on the ground. For those driven by curiosity, fortress Strač is located on the thematic Route of fortresses and arms, where a brief history of the…
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Fortress Golo brdo
What will make fortress Golo brdo remain in your memory is the silhouette of the fortification, which portrays the stone landscape of the mountains that surround it, on your way towards it. Originally called Fortress VII, it belongs to the older generation built of hand-hewn stone blocks, of exceptional precision. Artillery platforms were subsequently added…
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Fortress Petrina
The Austro-Hungarian army approached the war as a scientific discipline. In the 1880s, when it was decided to strengthen the border with Montenegro, military engineer Karl Wahlberg designed a special type of mountain two-part carved stone fortress. Such was Petrina, which was originally built as a three-storey defensive barracks. After three years, two semicircular artillery…
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Old town Drijeva
The old town of Drijevo is located in the navigable part of the lower Neretva, along an important road that connects the coast with the hilly continental hinterland. The area of today’s Gabela in the late Middle Ages, due to its position, has significant trade capacities. In historical sources it appears under the name Drijeva,…
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Old town Počitelj
According to assumptions, the old town of Počitelj was built by the Bosnian king Stjepan Tvrtko I at the end of the 14th century. The town was morphologically adapted to the terrain on a rocky cliff above the bank of the river Neretva. In written sources, it is first mentioned in 1444, in the charters…
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Mogorjelo roman complex
Mogorjelo is one of the largest ancient complexes in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Life begins in the middle of the 1st century. when the complex of a large private agricultural estate (villa rustica) was built. A building for processing agricultural products (villa rustica fructuaria) was built on a prominent part of the hill exposed to winds,…
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Klepci bridge
The stone bridge in Klepci bridges the river Bregava near the mouth, and was built by the Herzegovinian Sandžak-beg, Mustafa-beg, in 1517. 150 years later, during the mandate of the Ottoman legator and builder Šišman Ibrahim Paša, the bridge will undergo certain modifications that are relevant to this day. In the wider area, older roads…
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Stjepan-grad
The old town of Blagaj or Stjepan-grad was built on the most prominent place of a high and difficult to access karst hill, at 310 m above sea level and above the source of the river Buna from which it is 266 m. Blagaj fortress is situated on naturally flat terrain, , west and north…
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Earlychristianity basilica „Cim“
The early Christian basilica in Cim belongs to the type of Bosnian-Herzegovinian basilicas of a more complex type. It has one central nave (nave) and ends with three semicircular apses on the east side. South of the church, a memorial was made – a tomb of much smaller dimensions but with a similar floor plan.…
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River „Buna“ Spring
East of Mostar is the spring of the Buna River, and it is the largest karst spring in Europe with an average annual flow of 43 m³ per second. The spring is located below a 200m high stone cliff, and the Dervish Tekija was built nearby, which was mentioned in 1664 by the travel writer…
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Fortress of herceg Stjepan Kosača
The late medieval fortification of the feudal ruler of herceg Stjepan Kosaca is the most monumental archeological site of the Ljubuški Municipality, located on the prominent top of the karst chain of Buturovica hill (396 m above sea level) and as such is a symbol of the town of Ljubuški and Herzegovina. The fort complex…
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Roman military camp Gračine
When in AD 9 they broke the resistance of the militant Illyrians, Delmatians and Pannonians, the Romans began to build roads, bridges and forts. One of the small military camps, which could accommodate a cohort of four hundred soldiers and a hundred horsemen, was situated in the area of Ljubuški. It is assumed that the…
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Earlychristianity basilica Doci
At the Doci site in Gornja Vitina in 1956, D. Sergejevski excavated the remains of an early Christian church 13.10 x 11.37 m, oriented east-west. The church consisted of a nave with an apse and side rooms on the south and north sides. A double vaulted tomb was discovered in the southern part, and the…
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Roman site Mlade
Near the bridge on the river Mlada, on a secluded hill west of Vitina, in the old cemetery Na Mladima, at the end of the 19th century, building remains from Roman times were noticed. The land around the cemetery towards Vitina is sprinkled with the remains of tiles and ceramics. Older researchers placed the remains…
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Roman site Dračevica
South of the main road Vitina – Ljubuški lies the locality Dračevica, with several privately owned plots. In 1894, Franjo Fiala discovered the remains of a Roman building complex (63 x 47m) on an area of four hectares. An abundance of fragments of pottery, bricks and tiles, agricultural tools, jewelery and coins, mostly emperors from…
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Helenistic necropolis Mrljanovac
In the area of Gornji Radišići (hamlet Marići) near Ljubuški, there is the locality Mrljanovac, where the remains of graves from the developed Iron and Hellenistic periods (5th-1st century BC) were discovered. Through the Mrljanovac gorge, the fortifications of Sitomir (394 m above sea level) and Obala (369 m above sea level) were approached, which…
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Stećak necropolis Dilić
Bilizi, kamici, stećak tombstones or marbles are medieval stone tombstones that appear in the 13th century, with the peak of use and development in the 14th and 15th centuries. According to previous research, about seventy thousand biligs are known, of which in Herzegovina and Bosnia 86 percent, and the rest in Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.…
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Archaeological museum Humac
Franciscan monastery Humac–Ljubuški is home to the archaeological collection popularly known as Humac Museum. It was founded in 1884, four years before the National Museum in Sarajevo. The collection contains a large number of exhibits from Herzegovina, from the Neolithic period to the Middle Ages, in a variety of materials: stone, bronze, copper, iron, silver,…
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Monastery library
With the beginning of the construction of the Humac monastery, the Ljubuški and Herzegovinian Franciscans founded the monastery library in 1867. When the monastery was built, the books were in different rooms. In 1968, a special room was arranged in the western wing of the monastery, where all books with manuscripts and archival documents were…
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River Trebižat
The river Trebižat is a right tributary of the river Neretva. The course of the river is located in a very karst area, which causes water to sink along the riverbed. At its entrance to the territory of the municipality of Ljubuški, the river has the name Tihaljina. It receives the largest spring of constant…
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Waterfall Kravica
River Trebižat created a 26—28 m high waterfall. The water amphitheater has a diameter of 120 m, and it has been under protection as a natural rarity since 1954. Limestone layer is covered with grass, moss and lichen, and along the waterfall there are poplar trees, chaste trees and figs. The water has created natural…
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Waterfall Koćuša
Koćuša Waterfall is located in the village of Veljaci in the municipality of Ljubuški, on the river Mlada, which changes its name to Trebižat downstream. The natural wealth of this area consists of sedimentary rocks, the so-called travertine that has been deposited for years, makes this waterfall even more attractive. The height of the waterfall…
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Fortress Kruševac
The medieval fortress is located on a hill above the river Lištica. It was first mentioned by franciscan Peter Bakula in the schematism of the Franciscan Province of Herzegovina as early as 1867. Other historians, such as franciscans Dominik Mandić, Rudolf Bonić, and Bonicije Rupčić, who soon reach a common conclusion about the historical name…
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Kočerin tablet
The Kočerin tablet is a tombstone of Viganj Milošević found in Kočerin fields at the end of the 19th century. For a long time, the monument was built into the building of the parish apartment in Kočerin. During the scientific conference “Viganj and its time”, the inscription was taken out of the wall and stored…
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Earlychristianity basilica Mokro
The early Christian basilica in Mokro belongs to the Bosnian-Herzegovinian type with a complex floor plan, in the center of which is a nave inside which gathers a regiment, a narthex – a covered entrance in the west, and in the east a semicircular apse inside which is a presbytery. The side rooms were used…
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Franciscan gallery Široki Brijeg
After the construction of the church and the monastery, the first works of art arrived in Široki Brijeg during the 19th century. Although the works are mostly religious in theme and by unknown authors, they will turn out to be the basis for cultural revitalization after the numerous troubles brought by the world wars. Basics…
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Canyon of river Lištica „Borak“
The river Lištica passes through a canyon, ie a narrow strait bordered by rocks and gorges, and is fed by several springs, the most famous of which is the spring “Borak”. Upstream streams buy all surface water during heavy rainfall and melting snow from the mountain Čabulja, and finally flow into the river Neretva. Low…
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Old town Vidoški
The medieval town Vidoški, founded in the 5th and 6th century, during the times of a Byzantine emperor Constantine. Constantine built a fortress in Stolac which protected his trade caravans headed from the west to the east, former Byzanthium, today Istanbul. After the emperor Constantine, the town was neglected until the Slavs came in the…
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„Stećak“ necropolis Radimlja
Stećak Necropolis Radimlja is the most valuable and most famous monument of medieval period of Bosnia and Herzegovina (14th and 15th century). Its valuable characteristics are: number of stećaks, diversity, presence of all basic shapes, relatively high artistic quality of creation, rich decorations and engravings with the names of historical figures and its accessibility and…
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„Stećak“ necropolis Boljuni
The necropolis is located in a village of Boljuni, 12 kilometers southwest of Stolac. It has 273 stećaks in total. It is a third by size and first by the number of decorated stećaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A total of 105 of them are decorated. Most of them originate from 15th and 16th century.…
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Helenistic fort Daorson
Somewhere is Herzegovinian karst, Daorson is a living proof for existence of Stolac and its surroundings. A Hellenized Illyrian tribe of Daorsi who lived around 300 till 50 B.C.E. in a valley of river Neretva, built their capital city in Stolac, called Daorson. All administrative, public and religious facilities where located there. They took over…
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Cave Badanj
Stolac records signs of life starting from the epipaleolithic period (14 000-12 000 B.C.E.). Somewhere in the waterbed of a blue river of Bregava, in a cavelets, in a rock, 45 meters above the river flow, a caveman found his hideout, in a cave Badanj. Those first residents left a trace, an engraving, a figurine…
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Tombstone of Moshe Daonon
One unusual event assures Stolac a second most important pilgrimage site for Jews from all over the world. Indeed, a Rabbi Mosha Danon left Sarajevo in 1830 to Palestine to fulfill his vows; however death got him while passing through Stolac. He was buried on the exact place where he died, and a headstone above…
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Hutovo blato
Nature Park “Hutovo blato” is founded in 1995. It is located in southeast Herzegovina, on the left side of river Neretva on the territory of municipality of Čapljina and Stolac. It occupies area of 7411 ha. It is considered to be one of the largest bird winter resort for in Europe. International Council for Protection…
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River Bregava
Bregava (old name Vidoštica or Vidov’s river) is a left confluent of river Neretva in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Passing through Stolac, it creates falls and waterfalls, flows on different levels creating river islands. Indented coast enables access to water in multiple places, offering the inhabitants a special connection to the river. River islands serve for…
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Trebinje
The historical center of Herzegovina certainly has something to offer to its visitors. It is a hospitable town, with a mild Mediterranean climate, in which three cultures, traditions and historical epoch intertwine. A town of fantastic gastronomy and excellent wines.
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Museum of Herzegovina
The museum was opened in the building of the former Austro-Hungarian barracks, according to the idea of the poet and diplomat Jovan Dučić. It includes Dučić’s collection of exhibits as well as a permanent ethnological, archaeological and historical exhibition.
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Pigeon post office
Within the Museum of Herzegovina, there is a building that was the last Austro-Hungarian station for carrier pigeons in that part of Europe.
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Platanus
The giants which are the symbol of the town were planted in the Austro-Hungarian era and have been adorning the main square of Trebinje with their canopies for more than 120 years. Take a break in their shade and the hospitable locals will be happy to tell you stories about them.
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Vineyards
The region of Trebinje is known for growing grape vines and numerous wine cellars. It is interesting to note that in 1898 the Austro-Hungarian Empire formed a vineyard station with 29 hectares of vineyards from which the famous type “žilavka” was made with special labels for the needs of the Viennese court.
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River Trebišnjica
Finish your visit to Trebinje with a walk along Trebišnjica, an extremely clean river rich in even endemic fish species. Its shores, along with numerous picnic areas, are connected by stone bridges that are worth visiting.
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Nature Park Orjen
Orjen is adorned with various karst forms, cracked rocks, pits and sinkholes, as well as an endemic species of Heldreich’s pine, some of which are 650 years old. Going through the rugged nature, abandoned summer pastures (katuns) and the remains of military settlements is a kind of adventure that stimulates curiosity. You can get more…
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Luštička villages
The population of twelve villages and hamlets has been engaged in olive growingand agriculture for centuries. Many houses still have old olive mills. In the villageof Mrkovi, you will see a tower that served to hide the population from the pirateinvasion. The people of Luštica were also skilled sailors. Visit the village of Zambelići andthe…
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The fishing village of Rose
This settlement was a port, a customs zone and a place of obligatory quarantine for sailors for years. Today, Rose is a quiet and peaceful place with old Mediterranean stone houses. The place is interesting for divers, and a ship wreck “Bokelj” can be found on the beach behind the fortress Forte Rose, which is…
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Arza Fortress
The fortress is located on the cape Arza, very close to the Bay of Mirište. The impressive building is not open for visitors, but we invite you to visit its walls.
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Mamula Fortress
The island-fortress Mamula (formerly known as Lastavica) is one of the first Austro-Hungarian fortresses built in this area. It was used as a prison in both world wars.
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Kabala Fortress
Fortresses Kabala and Luštica are twins in terms of architecture and position. They are dug in a rock, along the shore at the entrance of the Bay of Kotor. Today, fortress Kabala offers visitors an adventure within its walls, and fortress Luštica outside them, so we suggest you to explore them at the same time.…
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Luštica Fortress
This is one of the few fortresses that the Austro-Hungarian army disabled by a deliberate explosion in 1918, during its retreat after the defeat. Time and nature additionally decorated fortress Luštica, so that today it looks more like an abandoned temple from one of the adventure films about Indiana Jones, than a military facility from…
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Tivat Saline
The unique bird oasis – Tivat saline, has been declared a special nature reserve and an area of international importance for birds in Montenegro. As many as 114 bird species have chosen Tivat saline as their temporary home. Birdwatching towers as well as info boards with additional information are placed withing the area of Saline.
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Peninsula Luštica
The least populated coastal area, Luštica peninsula is located at the entrance to the Bay of Kotor. It can be visited by car or even better – by bike or on foot, discovering village paths, hospitable hosts… Numerous beaches and coves that are special attraction of the peninsula can be accessed from the mainland and…
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Blue cave
This natural landmark can be visited only by boat. On clear days, the sun’s rays refract and illuminate the water inside the cave, making it blue. Do not miss to swim in the cave and experience a completely new sea experience.
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Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God
The small village church in Dragalj, near the main road Risan-Grahovo, is of historical significance. In front of it, the people of Krivošije welcomed the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I. More about this event you will find out on info board near the fortresses of Janko’s peak.
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Risan
Take a walk through the streets of the oldest settlement in the Bay of Kotor, discover the archaeological complex of Villa Urbana and the remains of the culture of the Illyrians, Romans, Greeks and Austro-Hungarians. Then take a break on the nearby beaches and enjoy local specialties.
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Fortress Dvrsnik
Dvrsnik, together with fortress Strač in Trebinje, belongs to the last generation of fortresses designed before the First World War. At the end of the 19th century, this type of expensive and huge fortifications replaced the stone ones, which no longer provided the army with protection from a new generation of artillery, stronger destructive power…
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Kom Fortress
The guardian of the military camp-town, the fortress Kom, was constructed in the 1880s as a typical building with two parts: a barracks on three level and a platform for artillery. It is interesting that it (and this also applies to other fortresses in the Bay of Kotor) at that time had its own infrastructure…
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Fortress Stražnik
Stražnik, one of the most beautiful small fortresses, is a remarkable example of fortification architecture harmoniously blended into the landscape. This is easily noticed on the way to it, climbing serpentines carved into the layered, limestone rock, after which this fortress got its name. The compact, hexagonal building had a gray-brown facade. Near the fortress,…
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Jankov vrh Fortress
After a few kilometers of walking over the beaten and marked paths through the dense deciduous forest of Krivošije, you will reach an extremely sensitive point in the defense of the former Austro-Hungarian border with the Kingdom of Montenegro. There was the first line of defense, together with the fortresses of Janko’s peak – Ost,…
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Fortress Šanik
The reason why you should definitely go to the fortress Šanik is the magnificent view of the Bay of Kotor and the “stone sea” of the hinterland, which comes as a reward for walking kilometers and overcoming ascents. The fortress was built in the immediate vicinity of the former border with the Kingdom of Montenegro,…
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Fortress Vranovo brdo
From the mountain rim above Dražin vrt (Draža’s garden), the Bay of Kotor was supervised by the fortress popularly called St. Andrew, and in Austro-Hungarian documents known as Vranovo Hill. Although quite ruined, it still has a heavy iron entrance door, one of the last preserved at the Austro-Hungarian fortifications in the Bay of Kotor.…
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Waterfall Sopot
This noisy spring is most active in winter and spring. It emerges from the cave and will convince you in the true power of nature. Remains of pottery, over a thousand years old, are proof that locals have been coming to the spring for centuries.
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Kotor
After visiting fortresses Goražda and Vrmac, visit Kotor – a town of merchants and sailors, the best preserved medieval urban settlement, breathtaking architecture and cultural heritage monuments that have found their place on the UNESCO list.
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Maritime Museum
Visit Maritime Museum within the Old Town. Apart from the rich setup showing the development of the maritime history through the history of Boka, do not miss to visit the hall with examples of Austro-Hungarian infantry weapons from the 19th century.
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Austro-Hungarian prison
Within the Old Town, you will notice a former prison – an interesting building with thick walls and windows protected by wrought iron. It was visited by Emperor Franz Joseph I when he came to the Bay of Kotor.
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Vrmac Fortress
One of the largest and most important fortresses for the defense of the Austro-Hungarian military port in the Bay of Kotor, fortress Vrmac was built in the 1880s. It was regularly upgraded and rearmed until the First World War – with heavy iron shields on artillery batteries and armored rotating domes on the roof, which…
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Goražda Fortress
Even today, fortress Goražda arouses admiration, due to the skill and precision of its builders, and due to the skill of the architects to create a monumental and functional whole, in complete harmony with the natural environment. Together with fortress Vrmac, it formed a backbone of Lovćen defense line. The significance of fortress Goražda in…
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Grabovac Fortress
Fortress Trašte (popularly known as fortress Grabovac) is the youngest fortress in the Bay of Kotor, built before the war for more efficient defense of Tivat, where the navy was located, about which you can find out more on a tourist board next to the entrance. A short path towards it goes next to the…
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Tivat
Take a walk along the promenade of the sunniest city of the Bay of Kotor, enjoy its beaches and the view towards the Island of Flowers, Island of St. Mark and Our Lady of Mercy and, if you have time, visit them.
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Nautical Museum
Visit the Nautical Museum, within the Porto Montenegro marina, and get familiar with the history and development of the navy in Boka.
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City park Tivat
Tivat City Park, founded by Admiral Freiherr von Sterneck in 1892, is the largest landscape park in Montenegro. Take a walk through the park and discover the richness of plant species that sailors brought from all over the world.
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Grahovo Lake
The artificial lake in the source part of the Grahovo River, clear and surrounded by forest, is located about 20 minutes of drive from the sea. It attracts hikers, nature lovers, but also fishermen.
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Arboretum
The botanical garden, open for visitors in Grahovo is a unique horticultural unit that the Kovačević family has been developing for the last 50 years.
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Bijela gora
The vast karst plateau covered with beech forest as well as unique endemic fir forest.
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Orjen Nature Park/Orjen Massif
The area of Nature Park Orjen is recognized for its numerous protected plant and animal species. It offers visitors the opportunity for an active holiday, and in addition to hiking and biking, speleology is also popular.
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Hiking along the coastal mountaineering transversal – PPT
Hiking by the Mountaineering Coastal Transversal, you will enjoy the view of the distant open sea, pass through the old Austro-Hungarian roads, next to numerous caves, sinkholes and historical sites.
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Adventure park Vrbanj
Adventure park Vrbanj in Nature Park Orjen (at 1100 meters above sea level) is one of the most visited attractions for children and adults.
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Top bike trail 1: Salty & Sweet
The trail starts from Herceg Novi and leads through a labyrinth of paths, from Saddle descending along the northeastern slopes of Orjen towards Crkvice.
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Archaeology
Numerous caves and pits of Orjen are a real treat for speleology lovers. In one of these, the Vranjaj cave, remains of material culture from the older Neolithic period have been found, and in the pit near Žlijebska jama the remains of prehistoric pottery have been discovered.
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Orjen villages
Following the scarce terrain suitable for agriculture and cattle breeding, from west to east, the villages Kruševice, Kameno, Žlijebi and Vrbanj can be seen. The basic building material was stone, from which the walls of houses, cisterns and in some places roofs were built.
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Katuni
On Orjen, as on other Montenegrin mountains, cattle was brought in summer pastures during the summer months. The huts were built of drywall and water was provided by building small family cisterns. Today, summer pastures are almost never used, and the remains of huts and drywall, along hiking and biking trails, remain to testify about…
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Roads around Orjen
Pedestrian and vehicular roads built by Austria-Hungary are still in function today. They were built after the First Krivošije Uprising, in order to provide passability and traffic communication. Passing these roads, you will see numerous stone subwalls, built by the traditional technique of drywall, without binding material.