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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 ligger på det smaleste punktet i Kotorbukta, der Verige-sundet snevrer inn til 350 meter og ferja til Lepetane bruker fem minutter over — og sparer rundt tretti kilometer kjøring rundt bunnen av bukta. Landsbyen har navnet sitt fra stein: kamen. Steinhoggerne her arbeidet den røde bergarten fra nabogrenda Đurići, som lokale beretninger knytter til gulvet i Markuskirken i Venezia og til palasser og kirker i Zadar, Trieste, Torino og Nice.

Kamenari & the strait

Bo i Kamenari

0 overnattinger i Kamenari

Ingen overnatting oppført i Kamenari ennå. Kom tilbake snart!

Who is still here

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

Hva ting koster i Kamenari

Ferje, bilcar or van, one way — foot passengers cross free: €5
Espresso: €1.20–1.80
Middag for tokonoba, with wine: €30–45
Fatøl: €2.50–3.50

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

Hvem bor her

Folketellinger, Kamenari kommune

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.

Buktens form

Stedene på sine virkelige posisjoner; vannet tegnet som et bånd

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

I mellomtiden, i 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.

Stemmer

“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 gjennom året

maiRound-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

Den lokale tallerkenen

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.

Hvor The waterfront konobas either side of the ferry ramp

Kamenari i tall

5 min
Båten: 350 m
Sundet: 627
Innbyggere: 12 km
Flyplass

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

Hvor lang tid trenger du i Kamenari?

Noen timer

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.

En hel dag

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.

Hvor bo i Kamenari

By the ramp

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

The village shore

Best for quiet water and a pebble beach, with the traffic behind you rather than past you

Bijela, five minutes west

Best for more rooms, more restaurants, the same strait

Kamenari

Kamenari & the strait

Bo i Kamenari

Hvem bor her

Stone, then traffic

The year the crossing started

Stemmer

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Kamenari gjennom året

Lignje na žaru — grilled squid

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