Montenegro Property

Budva

Budva (15.000 inhabitants), invisible spot on European map, Jewel of the Southern Adriatic and Montenegro, the oldest town on the eastern Adriatic coast, mentioned by Sophocles back in the 5th century B.C. under the name "Butua, the town of the Illirians". Terra Incognita for the generation craving for adventure and good fun which the past years have hidden the beauty to. The town with the traces of Illyric, Helenic, Roman, Slavic and Romanesque culture represents the essence of European civilization.

On the Budva Riviera, on the area only some 20 km long, you will find olive trees going back to the begining of first millenium, 17 nice sandy beaches, 7 monasteries and more than 50 willage and urban temples.

Becici - Hotel settlement and two thousands long beach, declared the most beautifull beach in Mediterranean by experts in Paris in 1935.

Milocer - pine forest, olive trees, exotic vegetation park, Queen's Beach, the hotel that used to be a summerhouse of the Yugoslav king Alexander, today the resort for sensitive, romantic and well-off clientele.

Sveti Stefan - medevial fortification and shelter before Turkish and pirate onslaught, has been turnet into an elite hotel-town, a symphony of rural intimacy and mundane luxury.

Petrovac - town with old fortress called Kastel, nice beaches, comfortable hotels and magnificent nature.

Budva is the centre of Montenegro's tourism, and is well known for its sandy beaches, diverse and vibrant nightlife, and beautiful examples of Mediterranean architecture. There are over 11,000m of sandy beaches in Budva which are the primary reason so many visitors and property buyers are attracted to this location.

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Boka Kotorska

Boka Kotorska, nordic in the Mediterranean, one of the most beautiful bays in the world - highly praised and described, celebrated, unique and unusual, penetrating some 28 km into unfriendly Montenegrin mountains. The beauty of Boka used to attract great minds of their times like Lord Byron, Geroge Bernard Shaw, Margaret Yurcenar or our Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andric. Boka is the oasis of the Mediterranean vegetation, agaves, palms, mimosas, oleanders, kiwis, medical herbs. While there is show on its mountain tops, roses are blooming at the foothill. The Bay is naturally divided into four small ones - Herceg Novi, Kotor, Tivat and Risan Bay. Like pearls, all along its coast there are small towns, treasures of history, art and beauty.

Beaches are numerous and versatile - from sandy and peebly ones to those stony, and most ofter there are little dwarfs which guests and the inhabitants of the settlements of the Bay use not only to go for a swim or have a rest but also to spend most of the day.

Hotels are also numerous and diverse - from modern, European ones to old captain palaced turned into small and luxurous hotels.

Herceg Novi

Herceg Novi (28.000 inhabitants) is the town located at the very entrance to the bay. Its look illustrates its tumultous history. Nice mixture of Romanesque, Byzantine and Oriental style packed into the Mediterranean looks of the town. Today, it is town of flowers, since all windows are turned towards the sun and the sea. It is one of the warmest towns on the Adriacis basin. In Herceg Novi, you have to see Museum and the Archives, the gallery of the contemporary art, the old town with the clock tower and Savina Monastery. And if you have got time go to Forta mare tower, Spanjola, Kanli Kula.

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Kotor

Kotor (23.000 inhabitants) is an old maritime and cultural centre. For centuries it had been the crossroads of trading rutes and under strong influence of the Venetian Republic. It is surrounder by strong defence wall, built back in the time of the Byzantine rule, which separates it from the mountainous hinterland. Numerous monuments of the medivial architecture contributed for Kotor to be includer into the UNESCO "World natural and cultural heritage list". Dobrota is a place which has preserver numerous palaces which belonged to former ship-owners. Prcanj is homeland of famous Bokelian warriors but also of able seaman who, back into the 17th century, held the first postal route between Venice and Constantinopole. Today, it is the treasury with several cultural-historical monuments and visitors are stunned by the parohial church, dedicated to the birthe of the Virgin Mary. Made from the trimmed tone from the island of Korcula, it was built according to the idea of Venetian architect Bernarding Macaruzzi from 1789. Perast is a birth place of many renewed world seamen and an example of a town whose entire history was directed towards the sea. By its lifestyle it reminded of Venice with which it had had lively commercial cultural links. It is full of remains of old nobleman's palaces which only indicates its former glory and wealth. In front of the town of Perast there are two islets - Our Lady of the Rock and St. George. They make exceptional tourist attraction. Risan has been known for remains of classical culture. There are the remains of the villa which once belonged to a Roman patrician with mosaics on the floors which do not lag behind those made in the Roman palaces in that time. The most beautiful one of them shows the figure of Hypnos, the god of sleep blessedly asleep on its bed.

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Tivat

Tivat (12.000 inhabitants), the youngest town in Boka, was buit on a spacious plateau at the foot of mount Vrmac. Judging by Kotor archivial sources, names linked with this place area dating back to the 14th century are Teude, Theode and Theudo, which is associated with the Illyrian queen Teuta. Unfortunately, there are few written sources about the events in this area in the times of Nemanjic, Balsic and Crnojevic dynasties, the Venetians, the French and the Austrian. During the middle ages and latter, fertile and sunny area Tivat belonged mostly to Kotor, Prcanj and Dobrota noblemen. Here they had big properties, castles and summerhouses, as well as joint church of St Anthony from 1373. Part of this herritage, once extremly rich Buca family, is today a luxurous summerhouse which hoses Tivat museum and galeries. On Prevlaka peninsula there used to be the seat of Zeta Metropolitan diocese from the 13th to the 15th century.

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Bar

Between the Adriatic Sea and Skadar Lake, at the foot of mount Rumija there is Bar (38.000 inhabitants), royal resort, the town of long beaches, old olive trees and subtropical climate. With 270 sunny days a year it falls amongst the sunniest places of the Southern Europe. Average temperature in July is 23 c, in January 10 c. Built on the stone plateau at the foot of mount Rumija, 110 meters above sea level and 4 kilometers far from the sea, the Old Bar is mentioned for the first time in the 9th century. Bar is a royal town, in the year 1077 our first king was crowned here - Mihailo Vojisavljevic, and at the end of the 19th century, king Nikola built a castle - summerhouse on the sea shore, next to the present day hotel "Topolica". From that moment onwards the town moves to the coast. Bar is a town of olives and olive growers. It may boast an over two milleniums old olive tree!

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Ulcinj

Ulcinj (25.000 inhabitants), southernmost town of the Montenegrin littoral, already at the first sight shows its three milleniums long and dramatic past. The ramparts of the Old Town of Ulcinjj rise directly from the sea, and the Old Town with its Cyclopean walls, towers, gates, loopholes brings you back to the distant past. The piretes from this area gave worries even to the powerfull Venice. The town of pirates, shipbuilders and conquerors attracts mostly with its long sandy beaches. The longest Montenegrin beach is located in Ulcinj - vacation on 13 km long Great sandy beach is a memory for life! Ada Bojana, an island at the mouth of the river Bojana in the Adriatic Sea, will make you totaly forget contemporary civilization! Paradise on earth!

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