Bijela (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Бијела; Italian La Bianca, San Pietro de Albis) is a coastal town within the Municipality of Herceg Novi, Montenegro. It is located north of Herceg Novi, near Verige strait of Bay of Kotor. 2003 census put the population at 3,748.
Bijela is the home of Bijela Adriatic shipyard (Montenegrin: Jadransko brodogradilište Bijela), largest maintenance and repair shipyard dock in Montenegro.
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Risan belongs to the oldest Illyric settlements on the Montenegrin coast. Legend has it that queen, fleeing from the Roman invasion, was hiding here in 228 BC, and then, unable to resist them, threw herself into the sea.
The original Risan was located on the northern side of the Carina field under the Gradina, while the Roman town was expanding towards the sea on the right bank of the river Špilja. It is assumed that a larger part of the town disappeared sinking into the sea in the disastrous earthquake at the end of the 7th or beginning of the 8th century.
Today archeological findings speak about the pompous palaces, walls and squares of this town.
Of special interest are the excavated remnants of a villa near the road Risan-Nikšić, from the 2nd century AD. Four of its five rooms are decorated with mosaics. On one of them there is the figure of Hypnos, God of sleep, procumbent; the only preserved depiction of this God in a mosaic. The other mosaics are of geometric character, combined with herbal and floral motives.
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Dobrota (Montenegrin: Dobrota/Доброта) is a town in the Kotor Municipality in coastal Montenegro. Although administratively a separate town, it is de facto part of Kotor, and encompasses most of Kotor’s residential area, while town of Kotor administratively encompasses town’s historical core. It gained somewhat of a notoriety among the locals, as the home of Montenegro’s only psychiatric hospital. Wikipedia
One of the most famous churches in Budva is the Catholic church of St. John , the seat of the diocese until 1828. It is not clear when the church was built. Its appearance and condition today are probably the result of renovation after the great earthquake. This is a triple-aisle, vaulted building, with lateral expansion before the sanctuary. On the north side a bell-tower was built, finished in 1867, like Dalmatian belfries of the period. To the south stands a building that first served as the bishop’s palace, executed in rough, almost rustic neo-Gothic technique, Gothic windows. This is obviously a reflection of 19th century romantic concepts in architecture.
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Ljuta is located 7 km away from Kotor, and is located in the heart of the Bay of Kotor, on the northern side of the municipality of Kotor. Village got its name by the river Ljuta. This river is one of the shortest rivers, underground streams in Europe. In the winter after heavy rainfall it carries a huge amount of water that flows into sea. Baroque church dedicated to St. Peter is situated in the central part of the settlement. Its construction began around the 1700th The order was finally completed 1780th year. Ljuta is also known thanks to the restaurant “Stari Mlini”, which got its name because it is located at the place where ( before 400 years) were the mills for producing flour for entire Boka Kotorska.
The Tara (Montenegrin: Ријека Тара / Rijeka Tara; Tr. Riyeka Tara) is a river in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. It emerges from the confluence of the Opasnica and Veruša Rivers in the Prokletije mountain, part of Dinaric Alps of Montenegro. The total length is 144 km, of which 110 km are in Montenegro, while the final 34 km are in Bosnia and Herzegovina; it also forms the border between the two countries in several places. The Tara flows from south to north – north-west and converges with the Piva at the Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro border between the villages of Šćepan Polje (Montenegro) and Hum (Bosnia and Herzegovina) to form the Drina river.
The Tara River cuts the Tara River Gorge, the longest canyon in Montenegro and Europe and second longest in the world after Grand Canyon, at 78 kilometers in length and 1,300 meters at its deepest. The canyon is protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is a part of Durmitor national park.
Rafting is very popular on Tara River. It is also one of the most popular things to do in Montenegro. The one day rafting route, from Brstnovica to Šćepan Polje is 18 km long and it takes 2 to 3 hours, but most popular is part which included few kilometers of river Drina all together 25 km to Rafting center Drina-Tara. Among the attractions of the area is Đurđevića Tara Bridge, on the crossroads between Mojkovac, Žabljak and Pljevlja.
Rafting starts at Splavista from where you start the adventure 100 km long in the most beautiful and exciting part of canyon. Already at the beginning the Tara, the waterfalls of Ljutica are shown and then, you will pass under monumental bridge of the Tara, 165 metres high and then, you come up to the old Roman road and then pass through the. Lever Tara. “Funjički bukovi” and “Bijele ploče” will make you realise how calm and up to this moment nice Tara becomes wild beauty. “Nisovo vrelo” is the deepest part of canyon of 1100 metres high. Further is the bottom of the mountain top, “Curevac” (1650 m), that rises above Tara as its “eternal guardian” and one of the nicest bellevue of Durmitor. Then you end up at the waterfalls of Draga and then pass through the Radovan luka. Then you pass through the “Canyon of Susica”, “Tepački bukovi”, “Brstanovički bukovi” and “Bailovica sige.” Rafting will end at Sćepan Polje.
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