Montenegro · Budva Riviera
Sveti Stefan
A fifteenth-century fishing fortress that became the most photographed hotel on the Adriatic.
Sveti Stefan is Montenegro's most iconic landmark — a tiny fortified island village connected to the mainland by a narrow sandy causeway, creating one of the most photographed scenes anywhere in the Mediterranean. Originally a 15th-century fishing settlement, the island's cluster of terracotta-roofed stone houses has been transformed into an exclusive Aman resort, but its extraordinary silhouette remains the defining image of the Montenegrin coast and can be admired from numerous public viewpoints along the surrounding hillsides. The beaches on either side of the causeway are the real draw for visitors.
Then & now
c. 1890Today
