Coast guide · about 1.5 hours from Podgorica
The sunniest corner of the Bay of Kotor: the Pine promenade and Porto Montenegro, the training ship Jadran, summer palaces, islands, Gornja Lastva and the Solila wetland.
Montenegro feature
Palms, yachts and islands where the Bay of Kotor opens wide and bright.
Stroll the Pine promenade to Porto Montenegro, take a boat to the islands and climb to the stone village of Gornja Lastva.
Read the full back story below, then plan your trip.
The back story
A sunny town on the Bay of Kotor where Kotor’s nobles built summer houses, sailors planted exotic gardens and an old naval arsenal became Porto Montenegro.
Where Tivat strolls
Tivat’s palm-lined town promenade, which runs on seamlessly into the waterfront of Porto Montenegro.
Built in 1933
A three-masted training ship of 1933, built in Hamburg and still based in its home port of Tivat.
14th century
The best preserved of the summer palaces that Kotor’s nobles built in Tivat, with a chapel of St Michael and a tower gate.
Laid out in 1892
A shady park of exotic trees brought home by Tivat’s sailors, laid out in 1892.
The bay’s largest island
At 34 hectares the largest island in the Bay of Kotor, 20 minutes by boat from the Pine jetty.
A 6th-century foundation
A low islet joined to the shore by a sandbar, with the monastery of the Archangel Michael, founded in the 6th century.
Views over the bay
A stone village on the sunny slopes of Vrmac, with a 19th-century olive mill and wide views over Tivat.
Ramsar site since 2013
Some 150 hectares of old salt pans in Krtole Bay, a Ramsar wetland of international importance and a haven for migrating birds.
Road, bus or air
By road Tivat is about an hour and a half from Podgorica via Cetinje and Budva; buses run from Podgorica bus station, and Tivat has its own airport.
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