
An Ottoman garrison town of 1862 that spent forty-three years called Ivangrad — with a thirteenth-century bishop’s seat two kilometres downriver at Budimlja and a 1,900-metre runway lying idle at its edge.
Berane su živahan grad na sjeveroistoku Crne Gore koji predstavlja kapiju ka veličanstvenom planinskom masivu Bjelasica. Smješten u dolini rijeke Lim, posjetiocima nudi autentičan ukus crnogorske planinske kulture daleko od priobalnih gužvi. Krunska atrakcija grada jeste srednjovjekovni manastir Đurđevi Stupovi, duhovno i arhitektonsko blago iz 13. vijeka koje podjednako privlači hodočasnike i ljubitelje istorije. U okolini Berana naći ćete izvanredne planinarske terene, čiste rijeke za ribolov i bujne šume koje u jesen plamte bojama. Sam grad ima živu pijacu, gostoljubive kafiće i izdašnu sjevernocrnogorsku kuhinju. Za putnike koji žele da istraže surovu unutrašnjost Crne Gore, Berane pružaju ugodnu i istinski gostoljubivu bazu. Od jula 1949. do 1992. grad je nosio ime Ivangrad, po partizanskom komandantu Ivanu Milutinoviću (1901-1944); na starijim kartama i u dokumentima to ime i danas stoji.
2 smještaja u gradu Berane
The municipality by settlement
Residents in 2023, Berane municipality
The town holds two in every five people in the municipality; nothing else in the valley reaches a quarter of its size.
Who is still here
Population change by settlement, 2011 to 2023
The town emptied faster than four of the five villages around it. Budimlja, the one settlement that grew, is where the monastery stands.
Ko posjećuje Crnu Goru
Udio noćenja stranih gostiju, 2025.
MONSTAT · 2025
Popis stanovništva, opština Berane
Down a tenth since 2011 and a sixth since 2003. The pulp and paper mill built here in the early 1960s employed over two thousand people and was closed in 1989 — the first big plant to go in a still-whole Yugoslavia — the scheduled flights had stopped a decade before that, and the valley has been sending its young people to the coast and abroad ever since.
The district has been named since the middle ages; the town in it is 164 years old. Widths are to scale.
Monastery 1213, bishopric 1219; Bihor falls 1455; town founded 1862; liberated 16 October 1912.
A day in the valley
A working town’s clock, one bishop’s seat and a museum
U međuvremenu — 1961
Ivangrad, 21 July 1961: JAT opens a Belgrade–Ivangrad tourist line flown by Douglas DC-3s, sold as the way to reach Bjelasica. Zagreb, Ljubljana and Podgorica follow.
The field — the airstrip had been there since 1935. Its runway is 1,900 by 45 metres of concrete and asphalt, with two grass strips beside it.
The name — from July 1949 the town was Ivangrad, after the partisan commander Ivan Milutinović (1901–1944). It went back to Berane in March 1992.
Elsewhere in 1961: Gagarin orbits the Earth in April; the Berlin Wall goes up in August.
Today — regular flights ended around 1976 and an early-1980s attempt came to nothing. In April 2023 the government signed a memorandum with a German operator — €45 million of a proposed €75 million for the field itself. Nothing has been scheduled yet.
“Đurđevi Stupovi was razed and burned five times during the Ottoman occupation.”
Metropolitan Amfilohije, at the monastery’s 800th anniversary, August 2013
Reported by Tanjug via Politika, 26 September 2021. The burnings are recorded in 1738, 1825, 1862 and 1875; the last levelling came in 1912, by Ottoman guns on Jasikovac, and the fifth rebuilding was finished in 1925.
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Berane leži u dolini Lima na sjeveroistoku Crne Gore, između Bjelasice i Komova. Regionalni je centar s oko 10.000 stanovnika, otprilike dva i po sata vožnje od Podgorice.
Manastir Đurđevi Stupovi iz kraja 12. vijeka nalazi se odmah izvan grada i glavna je znamenitost. U samom gradu su polimski muzej posvećen arheologiji i istoriji kraja te šetalište uz Lim.
Može. Staze na Lokvama i Cmiljači na Bjelasici opslužuju grad, a sezona obično traje od januara do marta. Područje je znatno slabije razvijeno od Kolašina — jeftinije i mirnije, ali s manje žičara.
Zelen i pastoralan prije nego dramatičan — dolina Lima je široka i obrađena, s Bjelasicom na jednoj i vrhovima Komova na drugoj strani. Ljeti je to kraj planinarenja i katuna, među najmanje posjećenim u Crnoj Gori.
Autom iz Podgorice za oko dva i po sata preko Kolašina i Mojkovca. Autobusi povezuju grad s Podgoricom, Bijelim Poljem i ostalim sjevernim gradovima. Postoji mali aerodrom, ali bez redovnog saobraćaja.
Putnicima koji idu dalje od primorja vrijedi — prije svega zbog Đurđevih Stupova i kao ulaz u Bjelasicu i Komove. To je radni grad, a ne turističko mjesto, i nagrađuje zanimanje za unutrašnjost prije nego za more.
Ne — najbliži je aerodrom Podgorica (TGD), 108 km putem.
92,6 km putem, oko 1 h 39 min vožnje.
Britansko Ministarstvo inostranih poslova (FCDO) nema upozorenje protiv putovanja u Crnu Goru; svoje smjernice je posljednji put revidiralo 13. avgusta 2026. To je njihova procjena države u cjelini, ne naša i ne ocjena o ovom gradu, pa je pročitajte sami prije puta. Broj za hitne slučajeve u Crnoj Gori je 112.
janSki-bus to Lokve — free, daily at 09:00 from the plateau in front of the town hall and back at 16:00 — from 14 January in 2026
julBerane Cultural Summer — free, 1 July to 8 August — over forty-five editions of concerts on the town square, theatre and literary evenings
julŠlaufijada — inner-tube races on the Lim and a fish-soup contest in Veliki park — a Saturday in late July, from 11:00
Lokalni tanjir
The tourist board lists the town’s buregdžinice alongside its restaurants and hotels, which tells you what Berane actually eats. Beside it, the local kitchen of Gornje Polimlje: priganice, kačamak, sheep’s cheese, pite and mantije.
Gdje Burek kod suda, Miloša Mališića 4, by the courthouse — working since 1967
Najbliža mjesta mjestu Berane, na svojim stvarnim položajima — Bistrica je udaljeno oko 25 km vazdušnom linijom.
Šematski prikaz. Položaji i udaljenosti mjereni su vazdušnom linijom, prema koordinatama koje imamo za svako mjesto; zbog planinskih puteva vožnja je duža. Podebljana linija označava obalu na dijelu koji prolazi kroz ovaj prikaz. Obala i Skadarsko jezero © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Berane u brojkama
Husein-paša orders a stone barracks built where no house stood
Đurđevi Stupovi — from 1219 the fourth bishopric Saint Sava founded
objects in the Polimski museum, founded in 1955
2023 census — two in five of the municipality’s 24,645
valley floor; Crna glava, the municipality’s high point, is 2,139 m
Lokve on Cmiljevica, 14 km up the Rožaje road — Montenegro’s second ski lift, early 1980s
MONSTAT censuses (2023 settlement figures preliminary) · Polimski museum · Berane tourist organisation · Radio Berane
Nekoliko sati
Two hours here covers a thirteenth-century bishop’s seat and ten thousand museum objects.
Cio dan
Berane is a base rather than a stop: the sights are small and the mountains around them are not.
Vikend
Two nights are for Bjelasica, whose ridge runs from Kolašin and Mojkovac down to Lubnice and Berane. The town is the working end of it.
Town centre, left bank
Najbolje za the main street, the museum and the small town hotels — everything on foot
Village homestays
Najbolje za over forty registered seoska domaćinstva, several of them katuns: home cooking, walking, riding
Lokve, 14 km east
Najbolje za the ski centre’s hotel on Cmiljevica, beside the Rožaje road — five kilometres of pistes when the snow comes
Najbolje vrijeme: jun · jul · septembar
| Mjesto | Putem | Vožnja |
|---|---|---|
| Andrijevica | 17,2 km | oko 23 min |
| Rožaje | 32,2 km | oko 46 min |
| Bistrica | 32,6 km | oko 1 h 1 min |
| Murino | 32,9 km | oko 45 min |
| Podgorica | 92,6 km | oko 1 h 39 min |
| Budva | 151,6 km | oko 2 h 55 min |
| Kotor | 163,5 km | oko 3 h 6 min |
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