The Resturant in Njegusi where we stop for
a sandwich.
Njegusi.
Njegusi.
The road between Njegusi and Cetinje.
CETINJE
Situated
under the Lovcen mountain, Cetinje is a city with rich cultural and historic heritage.
Cetinje was the capital of Montenegro. Cetinje began to grow around 1482 when Ivan
Crnojevic, moved under Turkish advance from the southern town of Zabljak on Skadar
Lake and named Cetinje new capital of Montenegro. Cetinje was the seat of the Montenegrin
Orthodox Church and the center of the organized resistance against the Turks. The oldest
building in Cetinje is the Vlaska Church. In 1838, Petar II Petrovic Njegos built the
"Biljarda", a building that housed the Montenegrin state administration. Cetinje
reached its zenith under King Nikola I Petrovic who ruled from 1860 until 1918. Under
Nikola I Cetinje flourished. The development was particularly notable after 1878, when
Montenegro was officially recognized as an independent state at the Berlin Congress.
Cetinje was the smallest European capital, but had many foreign embassies (notably the
Austrian, French, Russian, British and Italian), a palace, hospital, theater, girls'
institute, schools, museum, and archives. In 1993, following the dissolution of the
communist Yugoslavia, the government of the Republic of Montenegro moved certain
government functions from the capital Podgorica to Cetinje. This made Cetinje the twin
capital with Podgorica.
The Historical National Museum of
Montenegro, Cetinje.
Court Church, Cetinje.
Court Church, Cetinje.
A square, Cetinje.
The distance from Cetinje to the more
important museums in the world, Cetinje.
