Grad Herceg Novi

LOCAL ATTRACTIONS

OLD CITY
is a unique architectural structure, in the very heart of the core of the city. If you take the steps from the main city square – the Nikola Đurković Square, under the Clock Tower, after not more than 60 steps, you will find yourself on the Herceg Stjepan Square, commonly known as Belavista. The square features with the church of St. Michael the Archangel and a commemorative fountain, and by entering the Square, you’ll “brush” your shoulders with the City Archives building.
Should you continue walking, turn right into the Czar Marko street. At its end, there is a Mićo Pavlović Square with the churches of St. Jerome, St. Leopold and the Elementary Music School, former high school.
Should you immediately take steps to your right from the Belavista Square, i.e. take the Marko Vojnović street, you will pass by the Radio Herceg Novi, and then by the gallery »Josip Bepo Benković«, Yugoslav Army Club and you will reach Forte Mare, a beautiful fortress, which appears to arise from the sea.
If you go back, to the beginning of the steps, and turn left right after you pass under the Clock Tower, you will be heading towards Kanli Kula, known as the Summer stage. You can tour all these attractions in less than 30 minutes.

LAZARET
jis an attractive and impressive edifice located in Meljine, built in the 18th century (1732). At that time it represented the main health and sanitary institution of the Bay of Kotor. It was built by Venetians with carved stone, which monks prepared for the building of the Savina Monastery. In the courtyard of this edifice, there is a chapel of St. Roko built in 1730 during the time of the building of the very Lazaret. The church was restored in 1892. There is a fountain in the center of these edifices walled by two doors and three atriums with a few smaller buildings. In front of the edifice there are two docks, one with a large breakwater and a smaller one.

CITY MUSEUM
it is open for daily tours, except Sundays, from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm offering its archeological, ethnological, historic and botanical collection. An exceptionally fascinating item is the parapet plaque from the St. Toma church from the 9th century.

FORMER HOTEL “BOKA” PARK
is a true botanical garden located in the very heart of the city. The formation of the garden began along with the building of the hotel in 1908, and its actual appearance and content were acquired during the First World War, especially in the 1930’s.
There are 80 different plants in the park, which were brought by seafarers of Boka from various parts of the world. From 1979, there was a fish pond in the park, which was torn down due to its poor state after the earthquake. However, in 2000 by means of joint efforts from Tourist-Informative Center and the Herceg Novi City Hall, the fish pond was rebuilt on the same location according to the project of a Herceg Novi citizen Boro Dabović, which was almost identical to the original project done by the engineer Momčilo Tapavica.

BLUE CAVE
is one of the most attractive in the series of caves located on the Luštica Peninsula and is situated between the of Zlatna luka Cove and the Mokra gora Cape. It is 5.7 nautical miles away from Herceg Novi. It has two openings at 45 degrees angles; the height from the sea level to the top of the ceiling is 9 m, and the depth is 3-4 m. Its name comes from the unusual blue color during the sunny days, due to sun rays reflecting off of the surface of the sea. It is a must see as a part of one’s tour around the Bay of Kotor.

MAMULA ISLAND
is known on the sea maps as the Lastavica Island. It acquired its widely accepted name “Mamula” after the Austrian general Lazar Mamula who fortified it in the mid 19th century. Mamula is an uninhabited island located at the entrance to the Bay of Kotor, 3.4 nm from Herceg Novi. It is circular, 200 m in diameter. It is covered with low vegetation, it has a beach and a dock on its Northern side. During the both World Wars, there was a prison on the island and nowadays there is a commemorative inscription reminiscent of that period. There have been several projects made for the revival and tourist valorization of this very attractive island, none of which have been carried out thus far.
Mamula continues to be an abandoned island, but also a favorite summer getaway.

"NEBESKO OGNJIŠTE" (“CELESTIAL HEARTH”)
is a very unusual old family house, turned into an exhibition place, sculpture atelier, filled with works of Kosta Kilibarda. This local artist, together with the nature, transforms wood into different shapes and content giving it a new life and time profundity. This sort of a “gallery” is located on the small hill of Lalovina, in Zelenika.
(Phone: + 381 88 678 345)

HOTEL "PLAŽA ZELENIKA"
is the first hotel in Montenegro, which had its grand 100-year jubilee. Namely, in 1902 Dr. Antal Magyar, an aristocrat from from Budapest, built a hotel on the shore of the sea, on the beach surrounded by pine trees and greenery, which is why its original name was »The Green Beach Pension«. The first guests were foreigners thus marking that period as a start of the foreign tourism in Montenegro.
Thanks to founder’s heirs, particularly his grandson Čaba Mađar, the history and importance of this hotel gained attention of many newspaper article, TV shows, publications, the most significant being a book “Hotel Plaža Zelenika” by Čaba Mađar, as well as the book “Zelenika...the birthplace of tourism” written by his brother, Dr. Zoltan Magyar. From 1948, when the hotel was nationalized, it has had several owners, and from 1991 it is the headquarters of the Serbia-Montenegro Navy Command. It is particularly interesting that this is the only preserved hotel from that time as well as from the period between the two World Wars.

CITY STEPS – STREETS
Herceg Novi is a coastal city, situated on the hill and that is why most of the streets are actually steps, and our city is the city of steps as many others on the Adriatic coast. Herceg Novi is unique for some of the “streets” being so long to be very tiresome for tourists.
Streets, which at the same time are steps, have the following names: DANICE TOMAŠEVIĆ, RISANSKA, JOVA DABOVIĆA, 28. OKTOBRA, DAŠA PAVIČIĆA, LUKE MATKOVIĆA, MARKA CARA, SIMA MATAVULJA, MARKA VOJNOVIĆA.

MILLS OF MOJDEŽ
The village of Mojdež used to be famous for country mills. Until the World War II, in the watershed of streams from the Lovac spring, there were 22 mills, and later, for some 60 years of the past century there were only 5 active ones. Today there is only one mill, which is not being used though - »the Vujović Mill«, and just recently the Filip Šabović Mill has been renovated. One can find remains of old mills.

CITY PORT – BREAKWATER
The building of the breakwater of the City Port began between 1865 and 1877, and final works on the breakwater with the lighthouse were completed between 1950 and 1960, at which time the building of Port was finished as well. In the past 20 years, the Port has been quite neglected and in poor condition. It was finally renovated in 2005 and it now represents a tourist attraction especially at night.