Centralna Crna Gora

Vilusi

Three trunk roads and two border crossings meet at a village of 132 people — and it wrote and directed the most expensive film Yugoslavia ever made.

132 stanovnika
910 m nadmorske visine
Aerodrom TIV · 54 km
Named in a Kotor document, 1440

Vilusi su malo naselje u blizini Nikšića u centralnoj Crnoj Gori, smješteno na kraškoj visoravni nikšićkog kraja. Područje karakteriše suhi krečnjački teren, oskudni travnjaci i tradicionalno stočarsko gazdovanje. Pruža uvid u surov, samodovoljan način života u zapadnoj unutrašnjosti Crne Gore.

Potpuni vodič

Vilusi: ratište iz Drugog svjetskog rata i brdski krš između Nikšića i Bosne

Vilusi su malo brdsko naselje na kraškoj visoravni između Nikšića i bosanske granice, poznato po mjestima partizanskih bitaka iz Drugog svjetskog rata, tradicionalnom brdskom životu, Sominskom jezeru i jugoslovenskoj spomeničkoj umjetnosti naspram surovog i lijepog kraškog predjela.

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Vilusi u brojkama

132
Stanovništvo: 910 m
Nadmorska visina: 54 km
Aerodrom: 1976
Posljednji voz: 2,895 mm
Padavine: Salthua
Tvrđava

MONSTAT, Popis 2023, settlement tables · Republički zavod za statistiku, comparative census 1948–2003 · road distances by OSRM over OpenStreetMap · rainfall: Grahovo field, and Nikšić 1991–2020 from the Hydrological and Meteorological Service of Montenegro

Gdje se nalazi Vilusi

Najbliža mjesta mjestu Vilusi, na svojim stvarnim položajima — Nikšić je udaljeno oko 22 km vazdušnom linijom.

Klima na prvi pogled

Najbolje vrijeme: april · maj · oktobar

Koliko je daleko?

Mjesto	Putem	Vožnja
Rudine	13,2 km	oko 30 min
Grahovo	18,7 km	oko 45 min
Nikšić	29 km	oko 50 min
Kotor	66,2 km	oko 1 h 41 min
Budva	77,6 km	oko 1 h 53 min
Podgorica	79,8 km	oko 1 h 49 min

Rute označene sa ⛴ prelaze trajektom Kamenari–Lepetane. Udaljenosti putem izračunate na osnovu OpenStreetMap podataka, © OpenStreetMap contributors. Vremena vožnje su bez gužve i ne računaju ljetnji saobraćaj ni čekanje na trajektnoj rampi.

Koliko vremena treba za Vilusi?

Nekoliko sati

1Stand at the junction: the M-7 comes in from Nikšić, the M-8 climbs up from the Bay of Kotor, the M-9 leaves north for Bosnia and Herzegovina
2Coffee at Konoba Timor, 07:00 to 23:00 — the one kitchen in the village
3The Serbian Orthodox church on the western edge of the village
4Drive the 3.5 km west to Ilino Brdo and look through the gate at Klobuk

Twenty minutes and a geography lesson: Trebinje is 33 km from here, Nikšić 35.

Cio dan

1South on the M-8: 13 km to Grahovo and its karst field, 6.4 km of it by 1.5, periodically flooded, half arable and half meadow
2Grahovac, where the Ottoman column was broken over three days in May 1858 and the district passed to Montenegro
3Keep going — the M-8 runs 38.6 km in all, from this junction down to Lipci on the coast road
4

Gdje odsjesti — Vilusi

Vilusi, at the junction

Najbolje za a school, a Serbian Orthodox church, an EKO station and one konoba — 44 households, and the plateau

Grahovo, 13 km down the M-8

Najbolje za the old district seat at 720 m, above the field, halfway to the sea

Nikšić, 35 km east

Najbolje za the nearest town with hotels, and the municipality Vilusi belongs to

Trebinje, 33 km west

Najbolje za over the border and nearer than Nikšić — the reason the crossing is here at all

Vilusi by road

Kilometres from the junction, measured on the road

Two towns in Bosnia and Herzegovina are closer than Nikšić, the seat of the municipality Vilusi belongs to. The nearest border post, Ilino Brdo, is 3.5 km down the M-7.

OSRM driving routes over OpenStreetMap, September 2026, from the junction at 42.7278 N 18.5951 E

The old Grahovo district today

Residents by settlement, 2023 census

These villages were a municipality of their own until 1960. The largest of them now holds 133 people, and Grahovo, the seat, is down to 102.

MONSTAT, Popis 2023, settlement tables; district composition after the Grahovo municipality was abolished in 1960

Who held the Grahovo rim

A Kotor document names Vilusi in 1440. The village sat in the Ottoman nahija of Riđani, administered from Grahovo, until the Ottoman column was broken at Grahovac in May 1858 and the whole district passed to Montenegro. Widths are to scale.

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Često postavljana pitanja o gradu Vilusi

Gdje se nalaze Vilusi?

Istražite takođe u regionu Centralna Crna Gora

Vilusi in a Kotor document of 1440, after Bulajić (1987) · nahija of Riđani, seat at Grahovo, a subaşi recorded in 1466 · Battle of Grahovac, 11–13 May 1858 new style, 28 April – 1 May old style · Момчило Мићовић, Бањани (Београд, 2013), стр. 25, on the srez seated at Vilusi 1919–1921.

Vilusi leže na kraškoj zaravni zapadno od Nikšića, na starom putu koji iz središnje Crne Gore vodi prema Trebinju i granici s Bosnom. To je malo, razvučeno naselje u širokom otvorenom kraju.

Kakav je predio?

Blijedi krečnjak, tanka trava, suhozidi i vrtače, s dalekim vidicima na sve strane i malo stabala koja bi ih prekinula. Nadmorska visina i izloženost čine ga hladnim zimi, a ljeti svijetlim i vjetrovitim.

Kako se ovdje živjelo?

Stočarski. Zaravan drži malo površinske vode, jer kiša otiče pravo u stijenu, pa je ispaša, a ne ratarstvo, oblikovala kraj. Kamen je mjesni materijal za sve — od kuća i torova do međa i čatrnja.

Zašto je put važniji od samog mjesta?

Zato što nosi saobraćaj između Nikšića i Hercegovine, a istorija kraja umnogome jeste istorija te rute: sporne, utvrđivane i osporavane kroz duge crnogorsko-osmanske sukobe, i od tada pamćene u mjesnom predanju.

Šta nudi putniku?

Dionicu vožnje kroz jedan od najpraznijih i najupečatljivijih predjela u državi, s Pivom i Durmitorom na sjeveru i Bokom iza planina na jugu. Odgovara onima koji žele razumjeti teren, a ne ga samo preći.

Na šta treba računati?

Od kasnog proljeća do rane jeseni je razuman period, jer zime donose snijeg i jak mraz. Sadržaji su onakvi kakve nosi mali grad, pa neka Nikšić bude mjesto gdje ćete jesti, natočiti gorivo i nabaviti potrebno prije polaska.

Ima li aerodrom u Vilusima?

Ne — najbliži je aerodrom Tivat (TIV), 54 km putem.

Vilusi – Rudine: koliko je kilometara?

13,2 km putem, oko 30 min vožnje.

Koliko je bezbjedno u Vilusima?

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.

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.

Swim at Risan, 44 km from the village, then climb the 900 m back up for the evening

The M-8 is the reason to come: one road from this junction to the Bay of Kotor, dropping 900 m in 38 km.

Vikend

1Out through Ilino Brdo into Bosnia and Herzegovina; Trebinje is 33 km and a different country
2North to Bileća, 30 km, and Bilećko Lake — the Trebišnjica reservoir the Grančarevo dam closed in 1967
3Back in through Deleuša and Vraćenovići on the M-9, 17 km from home
4Sunday on the plateau: Petrovići counted 102 people in 2023, Broćanac Viluški and Vraćenovići 28 each

A weekend here is a border loop, and the roads still run as if the frontier were not there.

Ko posjećuje Crnu Goru

Udio noćenja stranih gostiju, 2025.

MONSTAT · 2025

Ko živi ovdje

Popis stanovništva, opština Vilusi

From 477 people in 1953 to 132 in 2023 — down 72 per cent in seventy years. MONSTAT had to suppress three of Vilusi’s eight age brackets in 2023 because 0–9, 10–19 and 30–39 hold 21 people between them; 36 residents, better than one in four, are 70 or older. Forty-four households remain.

U svjetskoj štampi

Vilusi reaches the national press when its roads do — and once when its most famous son died.

2012
SeeNews The rebuilt Vilusi–Petrovići road opens to traffic, the first section of the route north to the Vraćenovići crossing.
2014
Government of Montenegro Transport minister Ivan Brajović opens 5.5 km of rebuilt trunk road at Kuside, on the Nikšić–Vilusi route.
2016
Onogošt Another 2.5 km is rebuilt at Trubjela on the road to Vilusi, with the tender for the Ilino Brdo stretch still to come.
2017
CdM The five kilometres from Vilusi to the Ilino Brdo crossing are rebuilt for €2.5 million, and the crossing itself widened to three lanes.
2024
Al Jazeera Balkans Veljko Bulajić dies in Zagreb at 96; the obituary calls Battle of Neretva by far the most expensive spectacle ever shot in the former Yugoslavia.

Four road-works stories and an obituary: the press record of a junction.

U međuvremenu — 1969

The year the Bulajić brothers took Neretva to the Oscars

Sarajevo, 29 November 1969: Battle of Neretva premieres, with Tito in the audience. Veljko Bulajić, born in Vilusi in 1928, directed it; his brother Stevan, born in Vilusi in 1926, wrote the screenplay. Estimates of the budget run from $4.5 to $12 million — either way it is still the most expensive film made in Yugoslavia.
Hollywood — the film takes a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the 42nd Academy Awards. Orson Welles, Yul Brynner, Sergei Bondarchuk, Franco Nero and Curd Jürgens are in the cast.
The poster: Pablo Picasso drew one of the posters. By Bulajić’s telling he waived his fee and asked for a case of the best Yugoslav wine; no independent account of the deal has surfaced.
Vilusi — the family had come back here from Sarajevo when the war began, and all three brothers joined the uprising on 13 July 1941. The eldest, Đorđe, died of his wounds. The village behind them held 396 people at the 1961 census and 283 by 1971. It holds 132 now.

Glasovi

“Five thousand people waited at the new station on a hot day, two hours past the timetable; two old fighters led a kolo on the tracks until the train came.”

Boško Roganović, „Ćiro“ je stigao u Nikšić, Novine Nikšića, 10 March 2014

The first train up from Bileća reached Nikšić on 12 July 1938, after thirteen years of intermittent building. Vilusi had seen one a year earlier: a construction train got to the village in August 1937, reported by the Belgrade daily Vreme on 11 August. Near Trebinje the 760 mm line branched for Čapljina, Dubrovnik and Zelenika on the Bay of Kotor. Nikšić–Čapljina closed in 1976.

“Kadri Pasha was cut down — by one version by Spasoje Vučetić of Vilusi, by another by Staniša Koprivica of Banjani.”

Lokalna legenda

Јагош Јовановић, Стварање црногорске државе и развој црногорске националности (Цетиње, 1948)

Vilusi kroz godinu

julStatehood Day, 13 July — the holiday marks both the Berlin recognition of Montenegro in 1878 and the 1941 uprising, which the Bulajić brothers joined in this village on that date

Lokalni tanjir

Cicvara

Yellow or white cornmeal worked with kajmak — the clotted cream skimmed off slowly boiled milk — until the melted kajmak floats on top. It is eaten with a spoon, and in Montenegro a plate of it set before a guest with sliced pršut is the highest honour the house can pay. Its country is exactly this one: the karst highlands of Montenegro, eastern Herzegovina 3.5 km up the road, and south-western Serbia. Half the Grahovo field below the village is meadow.

Gdje Konoba Timor at the junction, 07:00 to 23:00, cooking local and regional — the only kitchen in Vilusi