Lovćen: Montenegro's Sacred Mountain and National Park
Mount Lovćen is Montenegro's sacred mountain, home to Lovćen National Park and the spectacular Njegoš Mausoleum perched
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Mount Lovćen rises directly behind the Bay of Kotor, a dark limestone massif that gave Montenegro its name and much of its idea of itself. Its two main summits — Štirovnik at 1,749 metres and Jezerski vrh at 1,657 — stand at the centre of a national park established in 1952, where beech forest, karst pasture and bare grey rock meet the edge of the coastal escarpment. The mountain has long served as the country's natural fortress and its symbol.
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The mountain that rises directly behind Kotor and the national park declared around it in 1952. It is the symbol of old Montenegro — the black mountain the country is named for — and separates the coast from the karst plateau and Cetinje.
The tomb of Petar II Petrovic Njegos, prince-bishop and poet, on Jezerski vrh at 1,657 m. Designed by Ivan Mestrovic and completed in 1974, it is reached by 461 steps through a tunnel, and the terrace behind it gives a view across most of the country.
Stirovnik, the highest point, reaches 1,749 m. Jezerski vrh, where the mausoleum stands, is 1,657 m. Neither is far from the road, which is why Lovcen is one of the easiest high viewpoints in Montenegro to reach.
By the old serpentine road above the town, a sequence of twenty-five hairpins climbing the wall of the bay. It is narrow, spectacular and slow; allow an hour to Njegusi and more in season, and check that the road is open outside summer.
On a clear day the Bay of Kotor, the Adriatic, Skadar lake, the Albanian mountains and the Durmitor massif — much of the country at once. Haze in high summer often shortens that; mornings and days after rain are best.
Year-round, but the mausoleum and the access roads are subject to snow from late autumn to spring, and the road from Kotor can close. Summer visits are best made early: the car park at the top fills by mid-morning.
