On the turn to the right (from the direction of Danilovgrad - Nikšić) near the town of Bogetići, after 8 km of winding road - there is the most famous monastery in the entire Orthodox area: Ostrog Monastery. It was built in 1665, with the cave churches of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Holy Cross. The monastery was built by the Metropolitan of Zahum and Herzegovina, St. Vasilije Ostroski.

The very position of this architectural wonder required the exceptional skill of the craftsman. The Ostrog Monastery was built in a hill, in the steep mountain ranges of Ostrog, at an altitude of 900 m. The white monastery is literally built into the rock and is sheltered by it from all sides. Every year, every day, many Orthodox believers, Serbs, Montenegrins, Russians, Greeks... and often members of other religious denominations make a pilgrimage here. The special feature of this pilgrimage epicenter is that in the cave cell there is the undecayed body of St. Vasilija Ostroški, and next to whose ark there is always a monk dedicated to continuous prayer. Only one day a year, on St. Basil's Day, the saint's body is completely exposed and can be seen. On that day, the monastery was approached for hours...

The long history of the Ostrog monastery is full of attested stories of miraculous healings. Even today, devotees come to spend the night in lodgings, and to pray in silence, from St. Vasilija asked for help. Books have been written about how the blind here saw, the deaf began to hear, the mute spoke, the immobile walked, childless couples had offspring... It should be said twice that books full of true testimonies have been written about all of this, and these books are on public sale. St. Vasilije the Wonderworker is another name for the same saint, for the same monk Stojan Jovanović who died here in 1671, and whose body was found perfectly preserved by later monks. If everything is like that, you can really see it. Not always, not without certain preconditions, it is important to emphasize, not without fasting, if someone visits the Ostrog monastery in the same way as they would any other tourist attraction.

The cave walls are painted with frescoes. Until the end of the Second World War, the three greatest holy places of Christianity were kept here: the miraculous icon of the Virgin of Filermska (see Cetinje), the former protector of the Order of the Knights of Malta, the hand of St. John the Baptist (see Cetinje) and a fragment of the Holy Cross (see Cetinje), a fragment of the cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified. Church of St. Trojice, better known as the Lower Monastery, was built under Ostrog in 1824. Although it is easy to reach the Upper Monastery from it today, on an asphalted, albeit extremely winding road, many people park their cars there out of respect, and make the pilgrimage on foot (about 20 minutes) up the hill to the monastery's Shrine. During that short hike, the pilgrim and tourist meets many people, talks to them, and hears incredible human stories. You can walk to Ostrog monastery, the Upper one, which is carved into the mountain like a miracle and can be seen from afar. It always pays off.