Petrovac & Paštrovići
The Roman Road
Petrovac began as a station on the Roman coastal road; this path of health strings pine forest, cliff-edge sea path and lit rock-cut tunnels between three very different beaches.
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Good to know
- The tunnels are lit, but the lighting is recent and outages happen — carry a phone torch; the longest tunnel runs 497 m.
- Do not enter the Hotel As ruin at Perazića Do — it is an unsecured concrete shell.
- Getting back: Budva–Petrovac buses run every 40–60 minutes in summer; from Reževići, flag the coastal bus on the Adriatic Highway above the monastery — the final climb ends on the road shoulder, walk it facing traffic.
- Water and food: Lučice and Petrovac are the reliable stops; nothing at Perazića Do outside July–August; Buljarica’s two kilometres are shadeless.
- After rain, Buljarica’s wetland margins stay muddy — keep to the beach berm in spring.
The walk
Buljarica
Stage 1 of 6 →
The riviera's last largely unbuilt bay: reedbed, farmland, forest fragments and a two-kilometre beach behind it. The round “300-hectare wetland” figure blends several overlapping boundaries — a beach protected as a natural monument, a defined bird area, a smaller wetland study focus — each with its own evidence and its own protection. A 2023 BirdLife-network review lists Buljarica as Important Bird and Biodiversity Area ME006.
Along this stretch
See
- Buljarica wetland (internationally important bird area)2 min walk
Lučice beach
Stage 2 of 6 →
Over the Malo Brdo pine saddle to a compact wooded cove south of Petrovac: a curved shore between green headlands, open Adriatic water. Montenegro's official Blue Flag list names Lučice bathing site 26A, operated by Pešter DOO, for the 2026 season — a seasonal award for the managed site, not a promise that every corner of the bay or every future season is the same.
Petrovac & Kastello
Stage 3 of 6 →
Kastio is Petrovac's best-known silhouette, but the low walls above the harbour are not an intact Venetian castle. Three layers sit on the headland: a 16th-century Kastelo tower, later demolished; a Lazaret quarantine complex reshaped under Austrian rule; and 20th-century memorials. Offshore float Katič and Sveta Nedjelja, about 800 m out inside protection zone II of Katič Nature Park — anchoring is prohibited there and visits are controlled and approval-based.
Along this stretch
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Eat & drink
- Konoba Mediterraneo2 min walk
- Konoba Bonaca2 min walk
- Fortuna2 min walk
- Konoba Tramontana2 min walk
See
- Kastello fortress & WWII obelisk2 min walk
- Katič & Sveta Nedjelja islets2 min walk
Roman mosaics of Mirišta
Stage 4 of 6 →
Reported in 1902 in an olive grove about 300 metres from the sea: a coastal residence begun around the end of the first or start of the second century, enlarged over generations, rebuilt after destruction as a working estate with olive-oil equipment, and abandoned in the early seventh century. A 2017 reopening notice is not a current schedule — the site was described as being in very poor condition in 2019, so confirm access with Budva Museums before walking out here.
Perazića Do
Stage 5 of 6 →
Hand-cut tunnels carry the old coast road through the headland, and Budva has documented unsafe sections on a planned 320 m stretch of the path — no completed lighting or guaranteed walking time is on record. Above the shore stands the unfinished Hotel As: contracts from 2002, a company sale in 2009, cases still unresolved in 2025. The Government has initiated a termination proceeding, not completed one.
Along this stretch
See
- Hotel As ruin (do not enter)2 min walk
Reževići Monastery
Stage 6 of 6 →
Three church layers above the Budva–Petrovac road, with 1223/1226 and 1351 as confirmed construction dates; the royal founders belong to local and church tradition rather than to the record. Tradition also holds that a stone pillar by the road kept a jug of wine for any passing traveller — there is no surviving hollow cup to find, and no proof of a six-century custom.
Where you can swim
3 beaches on this route, in the order you meet them. Each is measured, verified and sampled on its own page.
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Buljarica
sand and fine pebble · 2.2–2.5 km
Latest water: Excellent
The longest beach on the Budva riviera — 2,250 metres of sand, gravel and stone backed by a protected wetland, with almost nothing built on it.
1.5 km in
Lučice
sand and fine pebble · 220–250 m
Latest water: Excellent
A 220-metre cove of golden sand between two pine headlands, a fifteen-minute walk from Petrovac and a Blue Flag site in 2026.
2.8 km in
Petrovac
sand and fine pebble · 600 m
Latest water: Excellent
A 600-metre crescent of reddish sand and fine shingle with a town promenade along its whole length and two chapel-topped islets offshore.
Continue along the coast
Bar Riviera
The King's Promenade
A palm-lined promenade past King Nikola’s summer palace and its botanical garden, linking Bar’s pine-backed town beach to one of the Adriatic’s biggest marinas.
3.6 km · 6 stops
Budva Riviera
The Seven Bays
The coast’s most famous walk: promenades, a pedestrian tunnel through the cliff, hidden coves and pine paths linking seven bays — ending at the postcard view of Sveti Stefan.
11.4 km · 8 stops
Ulcinj Riviera
Pinješ Pines
A shaded shoreline path under pines between Ulcinj’s minaret-studded Old Town and the wooden kalimera fishing nets of Port Milena — the most Mediterranean stretch of the coast.
6.6 km · 7 stops