Kolašin is one of the touristic winter brand-names of Montenegro! The proof is that two opposite climates can exist in a small geographical area, the Mediterranean along the coast and the mountain. Kolasinska, among others. Compared to Podgorica (see that, Montenegro), Kolašin is only an hour's drive away. In that hour, an incredible height difference was overcome. Kolašin is located at an altitude of 965 m, and therefore has lower temperatures throughout the year. Many guests from Serbia come here by train, and get off at the station located along the transfer route Belgrade - Bar.

Lower summer temperatures (up to +25°C) benefit everyone, especially escapees from the hot coast, and those who do not find enjoyment in crowds. Winter temperatures, on the other hand, down to -25°C, promise what there is no real winter without: snow! Surrounded by a forest and its intense aroma, Kolašin is located on a mountain plateau, between real stone monstrosities - Bjelasica and Sinjajevina. Both mountains have something of a white winter seasonal atmosphere in their name.

In the time of global warming, this should be kept in mind. There is simply snow here. The cleanest river in Europe, Tara (called the Tear of Europe!) continues its watercourse towards the north, towards Pljevlje and Šćepan polje. At the place where it flows into the Piva, it created a wonderful canyon that extreme athletes know how to raft.

If all the geographical and ecological advantages of Kolašin are taken into account, it is a real wonder that the town is not a bigger tourist wonder compared to the wonder it represents! This much is certain: Kolašin has the most potential to become a major weekend destination for visitors from local urban areas. In the peak of the winter season, Kolašin is a real ecological rarity, painted by untrodden snow, watercourses whose banks want to freeze, and fragrant coniferous resins.

It is not necessary to apostrophize how in winter, in heated hotels, apartments and rental facilities, energy is renewed by consuming ecological food, the far-famed Kolašin krotol (potatoes), organic dairy and meat products, and local specialties whose recipes are witnesses of history.

Today's Kolašin (mountainous Montenegro), inherits the tradition of the city founded by the Turks in the 18th century. as a military defense post against invasion from Brdo (Montenegro) and Herzegovina. The remains of the former fortress are still visible today.

To summarize, the history of Kolašin follows the constant struggles of Montenegrin Christians against Muslims. Since most of the inhabitants were Turkicized members of the very tribe they were fighting against, the battles were merciless or at least epic, which later served poets from both sides to glorify their heroes in verse.

Montenegrins liberated the city in 1878. During the Second World War alone, the government here changed up to 20 times in a short time: Montenegrin-partisan, Italian, German, Kvislin... Since those times, only the main town square, with several streets around it, has changed in an architectural sense. Fortunately, the nature has also remained as if it were from the 19th century, which is why coming to Kolašin is a return to the nature that the ancestral ancestors watched before them 365 days a year.

Kolašin is, well, still a small mountain town. Its slow pulse is quickened only by the seasonal avalanche: it is noisy in the cafeterias when mountaineers and skiers, people on vacation, curious day-trippers, or weekend visitors descend to the center.

The main town square, Trg Boraca, was lively then. It is lined with several one-story houses of typical mountain architecture, with a dominant monument to fallen soldiers in World War II. In the immediate vicinity is the headquarters of the Biogradska gora National Park administration (see it, 14 km from Kolašin towards Mojkovac, see it), and the City Museum with a modest display of ethnographic exhibits. You should visit the church built after the liberation in 1878.

Kolašin's attraction is certainly represented by the private botanical garden "Dilovina", owned by Daniel Vincek, a mountaineer, co-author of the undisputed guide through all Montenegrin mountains (the book "Mountains of Montenegro" is on public sale), and author of the book "Small Mountaineering and Alpinist Glossary". Vincek conquered the peaks of all Montenegrin mountains, and women's hearts! That's because he never reached inaccessible peaks alone.

He always did that with his tragically deceased wife, Vera, and became the most famous romantic among local mountaineers, and the most famous mountaineer among romantics! Daniel Vincek planted in his attractive botanical garden all the most authentic plant specimens from the area of mountainous Montenegro. Botanički vrh is a must stop for all curious people, mountaineers, ecologists and nature lovers.

Excursions: Biogradska gora nature park (Lake Biogradska is at an altitude of 1094 m); Pešića lake, big and small; Šiška lakes, big and small, and Ursulovačko lake.