Driving the Budva Riviera
Researched guides to the lesser-covered corners of the Budva region: royal parks, mountain drives, old monasteries, ferry routes and the cliffside coves behind the Old Town.
Drobni Pijesak, The Tiny Sand Cove Where the Paštrovići Clan Held Court
A 250-metre crescent of fine sand halfway between Sveti Stefan and Petrovac, and the open-air parliament that once met on it.
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Miločer Park and Villa Miločer, The Royal Summer Retreat Next to Sveti Stefan
Eighteen hectares of Mediterranean park, a 1930s villa built for Queen Marija, and the beach the Yugoslav royals kept for themselves.
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Reževići Monastery, An 800-Year-Old Nemanjić Foundation Above the Budva Riviera
Founded in 1226 by Stefan the First-Crowned, rebuilt repeatedly, still a working Orthodox community above the sea.
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Budva to Lovćen Mausoleum, The Serpentine Drive to Njegoš's Tomb at 1,657 m
Out of Budva, up the old Austrian road, through Njeguši, onto the summit of the mountain that gives Montenegro its name.
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Sutomore and Stari Bar, A Day Trip South Through the Sozina Tunnel
Forty minutes from Budva: a long family beach town and a medieval ruined city on a hillside.
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Mogren Beach and the Cliff Tunnel, Two Hidden Coves North of Budva Old Town
Five minutes on foot from the Old Town gate: two small beaches joined by a stone tunnel cut through the headland.
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Budva to Bar Ferry Port, Driving Down to the Bari Ferry for the Italy Leg
An hour south to the Port of Bar, Montenegro's main sea gateway, and the overnight crossing to southern Italy.
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Cetinje Day Trip From Budva, The Old Royal Capital Over Lovćen
An hour inland from the coast: palaces, an active monastery, and the museum cluster that anchors Montenegrin national history.
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The Paštrovići Olive Harvest, Autumn in the Hills Behind the Budva Riviera
October into November, family-run mills still pressing the groves that have fed the coast for centuries.
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Kotor Day Trip From Budva, What to See in Four Hours
A thirty-minute coast drive: walled old town, the climb to the Citadel fortress, and back to a Budva beach by sunset.
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