Montenegro · Bay of Kotor

Kamenari

A village named for its stonemasons, whose red rock reached St Mark’s — and which the whole country now knows only as a place to queue for the ferry.

Kamenari se asienta en el punto más estrecho de la bahía de Kotor, donde el estrecho de Verige se cierra a 350 metros y el ferry a Lepetane cruza en cinco minutos, ahorrando unos treinta kilómetros de carretera rodeando el fondo de la bahía. El pueblo toma su nombre de la piedra: kamen. Sus canteros trabajaban la roca roja de la vecina Đurići, que los relatos locales vinculan con el pavimento de San Marcos en Venecia y con palacios e iglesias de Zadar, Trieste, Turín y Niza.

Kamenari & the strait

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The riviera by size

Residents by settlement, 2023 census

Bijela alone holds more people than Kumbor, Đenovići and Đurići together — this is a shore of small villages with one town on it.

MONSTAT 2023 census, settlement level

Los precios en Kamenari

Ferry, cochecar or van, one way — foot passengers cross free: €5
Café solo: €1.20–1.80
Cena para doskonoba, with wine: €30–45
Cerveza de barril: €2.50–3.50

Summer 2026. Motorcycles €2, bicycles €1, larger vehicles €8–25. The boat runs around the clock from May to October.

Quién vive aquí

Censos, municipio de Kamenari

Down a fifth in twenty years. Everything that made Kamenari — the quarry, the omnibus, the ferry company — was work, and the work either finished or was nationalised; what is left is a crossing people drive onto without stopping.

La forma de la bahía

Los pueblos en sus posiciones reales; el agua dibujada como cinta

A day at the ramp

Queue pressure by hour, high season

07:00the crossing is a five-minute formality
10:00Saturday changeover: allow half an hour in the line
14:00swim off the village shore while the queue clears
22:00the strait is at its best in the dark, lit from both banks

Mientras tanto, en 1901

The year the crossing started

Kamenari, in 1901 the Milošević and Sekulović families put a paddle boat across the Verige strait. The line has run ever since; it now carries well over a million vehicles a year.
Two years earlier — thirty-three shareholders had founded the Bokeljski Omnibus, horse-drawn carriages on the Kamenari–Herceg Novi road: the bay’s first transport company.
Stockholm: the first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
Signal Hill — Marconi hears the letter S sent across the Atlantic by wireless.
Zagreb: the narrow-gauge line to Zelenika, one bay west, is four years from opening.

Voces

“Thanks to the stone from Đurići, Kamenari is known not only in these parts but across the Atlantic.”

Total Montenegro News, on the village quarry

Local accounts credit the red Đurići stone with part of the pavement of St Mark’s in Venice, and palaces and churches in Zadar, Trieste, Turin and Nice.

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Kamenari a lo largo del año

mayRound-the-clock sailings begin — the boat runs all night from May to October
julPeak crossing — the heaviest month on the ramp — cross early or late
novWinter timetable — service narrows to 06:00–midnight with scheduled night sailings

El plato local

Lignje na žaru — grilled squid

The default of every konoba on this shore: whole squid over coals, blitva and potato alongside, olive oil and lemon and nothing else. Eat it looking at the strait, which is the point.

Dónde The waterfront konobas either side of the ferry ramp

Kamenari en cifras

5 min
La barca: 350 m
El estrecho: 627
Población: 12 km
Aeropuerto

MONSTAT 2023 census (Đurići settlement) · Herceg Novi tourist board

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Unas horas

1Park before the ramp rather than joining the queue
2Walk the shore east until the strait narrows in front of you
3Look across: Lepetane is 350 m away, and the road round is 30 km
4Coffee on the water while a boat loads and leaves

Kamenari is a ten-minute stop that explains the whole geography of the bay.

Un día completo

1Cross to Lepetane on the first boat, before the airport traffic
2Tivat and the Porto Montenegro quays
3Back over for lunch on the Kamenari side
4Swim off the village beach
5Drive west along the riviera to Bijela and Baošići

Use the ferry as the hinge of the day and you see both shores without driving the long way once.

Dónde alojarse en Kamenari

By the ramp

Ideal para anyone catching an early flight from Tivat — you are twelve kilometres and one short crossing away

The village shore

Ideal para quiet water and a pebble beach, with the traffic behind you rather than past you

Bijela, five minutes west

Ideal para more rooms, more restaurants, the same strait

Kamenari

Kamenari & the strait

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Quién vive aquí

Stone, then traffic

The year the crossing started

Voces

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Kamenari a lo largo del año

Lignje na žaru — grilled squid

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