Mirištapebble · 200 m · water ExcellentThe 200-metre pebble cove ten minutes along the coast path from Žanjice, under the Arza fort, with trees over the back of the beach and a fraction of the boats.Mirišta or Savina?
Two beaches 6.6 km apart, measured the same way. Mirišta and Savina side by side, on the nine things that decide which one your afternoon should go to.
Mirištapebble · 200 m · water ExcellentThe 200-metre pebble cove ten minutes along the coast path from Žanjice, under the Arza fort, with trees over the back of the beach and a fraction of the boats.
Savinapebble · 200 m · water ExcellentThe 200-metre pebble-and-concrete shore on the Pet Danica promenade below Savina monastery, twenty minutes’ walk east of Herceg Novi’s old town.The short answer
Choose Mirišta for
- quiet
Choose Savina for
- arriving by road
Measure by measure
| Measure | Mirišta | Savina |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | pebble | pebble |
| Entry | moderate | moderate |
| Depth | deepens quickly | deepens quickly |
| Shade | trees and umbrellas | umbrellas for hire |
| Character | organised and free sections | organised and free sections |
| Length | 200 m | 200 m |
| Latest water | Excellent | Excellent |
| Crowd | quiet | busy in season |
| Getting there | on foot | by road |
Bold marks a measure where the two differ.
Each in our own words
Mirišta
Mirišta is Žanjice with the volume turned down: the same open-sea water and pale pebble, a smaller cove about 500 m south along the coast path, a beach bar and a few loungers at €10 instead of two restaurants, and overhanging trees that shade the back of the beach in the afternoon. The Austro-Hungarian fort of Arza stands on the headland beside it and the Blue Cave boats will pick up here. It is the better of the two for a day with a book, and the worse for lunch.
Facilities are basic and unconfirmed beyond a bar and a few loungers, and the path from Žanjice is rough and unlit — do not plan on walking it after dark.
Savina
Savina is a promenade beach rather than a bay: 200 m of pebble and concrete platforms along the Šetalište 5 Danica where it passes below the monastery wood, with loungers at €10, a beach bar and restaurants within reach, and the view straight across the water to Luštica. Its point is the combination — a swim, then the climb through the pines to the three churches of Savina, or the other way round. Herceg Novi’s own swimmers use it; the boat crowds do not.
Much of the entry is off concrete edges rather than a sloping beach, and the promenade runs directly behind you — this is town swimming with a monastery above it, not a cove.