Montenegro
Budva is one of the oldest towns at the Montenegrin Coast (more than 2500 years old). Today it is the tourist and summer cultural capital of Montenegro. The legend says that Kadmo, the son of the Phoenician King Agenon, founded Budva. He was banished from Thebe, came to this area in an ox tandem and…
Under the slopes of Lovćen, with its unique fortress, UNESCO proclaimed it a world culture heritage, in 1979. It is surrounded by the 45 kilometers long rampart, which with the castle of St.Ivan on the hill, creates a universal fortification. The building of the walls started as early as in the illyrian times and continued…
A Town -hotel Sveti Stefn, situated nine kilometers east of Budva, was build in 1955, by reconstructing an old fishermen’s settlement. The fishermen sought refuge from the Turkish raids on the rocky island in the 15th Century. The resources for building houses and defense walls were provided from the looted Turkish ships anchored off Jaz…
It is of the most beautiful examples of Baroque architecture of the Adriatic coast. It represents the unity of the sea, the island, and the town. There used to be a settlement as early as the Illirian period, which started to develop faster, not before the 15th Century. There are as many as nineteen Baroque…
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