A country · 67 places · 13 regions

Montenegro, all of it.

67 curated places across 13 regions — photographed, mapped, and noted with the season each is best in.

Bay of Kotor · via Wikimedia Commons

The 4 biggest regions — Podgorica Capital City, Kotor Municipality, Budva Municipality and Old Royal Capital Cetinje — read below as chapters, with 9 more waiting past them.

Chapter I · Podgorica Capital City · 9 places

Podgorica Capital City

Erected in the early 21st century in the heart of Podgorica, this tall monument was raised to mark the new millennium and has become a recognisable feature of the Montenegrin capital. Its slender vertical structure carries a clock and is illuminated at night, standing at a road junction near the city centre. Though modern, it references the tradition of Ottoman clock towers found across the Balkans. The tower serves as a landmark and meeting point in a city otherwise dominated by mid-20th-century and contemporary buildings.

Millennium Clock Tower, Podgorica

Podgorica Capital City, Montenegro

✦ April–June, September–October · $

Clock Tower of Podgorica

Podgorica Capital City, Montenegro

✦ April–June, September–October · $

Millennium Bridge, Podgorica

Podgorica Capital City, Montenegro

✦ April–June, September–October · $

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Chapter II · Kotor Municipality · 7 places

Kotor Municipality

Perast is a small baroque town on the inner shore of the Bay of Kotor, its palaces and churches built during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when the town was a prosperous maritime centre under Venetian rule. Sixteen churches and twelve palaces survive in varying states of preservation within a settlement of just a few hundred residents. Two small islands are visible from the waterfront — Sveti Đorđe with its Benedictine abbey, and Our Lady of the Rocks, an artificial island created by the deliberate sinking of boats and rocks over centuries.

✦ April to October · $$

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Chapter III · Budva Municipality · 6 places

Budva Municipality

Budva is the main resort town on the Montenegrin Riviera, built around a compact medieval old town situated on a small promontory jutting into the Adriatic. The old town's Venetian-era walls enclose narrow lanes, Orthodox churches, and small squares, while the surrounding beaches — Slovenska Plaža being the largest — stretch in both directions from the historic core. The citadel at the tip of the promontory provides elevated views of the coastline.

Budva

Budva Municipality, Montenegro

✦ June to September · $$

Sveti Stefan

Budva Municipality, Montenegro

✦ May to October · $$$

Petrovac, Montenegro

Budva Municipality, Montenegro

✦ June to September · $$

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Chapter IV · Old Royal Capital Cetinje · 5 places

Old Royal Capital Cetinje

Cetinje is the historical capital of Montenegro, a small mountain town set on a karst plain at an elevation of 670 metres, which served as the seat of the Montenegrin royal dynasty until unification with Yugoslavia in 1918. The town retains an unusual density of former embassies — many European powers maintained missions here during the nineteenth century — now preserved as museums and cultural institutions. The Cetinje Monastery, rebuilt multiple times after destruction, holds what is claimed to be the hand of St. John the Baptist.

✦ April to October · $

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