Rafailovići

Rafailovići is the eastern end of the Bečići strand, 4 km from Budva along the shore: a settlement of 875 people at the 2023 census that was a fishing hamlet of stone houses, one of the three brotherhoods — Bečići, Rafailovići and Čučuci — whose names the beach still carries. The long sandy half of the beach belongs to Bečići and its resort hotels; Rafailovići is where the waterfront narrows around a small mooring, the pebbles take over, and the restaurants face the boats. Morsko Dobro’s 2025 plan for ports and moorings lists it as a commercial and communal mooring with 65 metres of operational shore and space for landing and selling the catch — a designation and a heritage, not a promise that tonight’s fish came in on the boat outside, so ask the species, origin and price per kilo before it reaches the grill. The village has changed faster than anywhere else on this coast. It counted 76 people in 1948, 197 in 2003 and 875 in 2023, and every fourth resident at the last census was Russian or Ukrainian; the stone houses have become apartment blocks, hotels and a terraced complex on the headland that turns orange at sunset. What has not changed is the geography: a compact waterfront where restaurant terraces, moored craft and summer foot traffic share a few hundred metres of shore, beach sectors with their own operators and posted rules, and the layered rock of Cape Đevištenje at the end of the sand. East of the rock the promenade stops being a promenade. A concrete path runs under the cliff and through a lit pedestrian tunnel in the rock to Kamenovo beach, ten minutes on foot — the point where the Budva riviera becomes a coast, and the best start for the eastern half of the Seven Bays walk to Pržno, the Miločer park and Sveti Stefan. Local buses towards Petrovac and Sveti Stefan stop on the main road above the village; Budva is a 4 km walk or a short bus ride west, and Tivat airport is 24 km away.