Two hundred people, a stream that comes cold out of the karst, and a two-hundred-year-old mill that became the best-known table on the bay.
Morinj er gjemt bort i det innerste grønne hjørnet av Bay of Kotor, på vestbredden mellom Risan og Kamenari fergeleie, hvor kalde ferskvannskilder stiger opp fra under fjellene og møter saltvannet i Adriatic. Resultatet er et uvanlig frodig, skogkledt landskap av bekker, kastanjetrær og gamle steinvannmøller, med den lille Morinj-elven som snor seg forbi dem ned til havet. Det er ett av buktens mest fredeligste steder, verdsatt for naturskjønnhet, klart vann til bading og eksepsjonell mat i stedet for folkemengder eller nattliv.
Bilder fra Morinj
Hvor bo i Morinj
Donji Morinj
Best for the shore — apartments on the water, the pebble beach at the door, and the trunk road of the 1960s running between the two
Gornji Morinj
Best for the upper half of the village: stone houses, terraced ground at Svrčak, and at Gornji Berberovići a fortified house with defence towers on the corners of its courtyard
Naluka
Best for Kamp Naluka, the village campsite, near the river mouth
Kostanjica, 2 km on
Best for seventy-seven people, and the next village back toward the Kamenari ferry — quieter again
Morinj, three neighbours along the same shore, and Perast for scale — 2023 census
Morinj holds more people than its next three neighbours together, and finishes thirty short of Perast. One of the two is on every itinerary in the bay; the other is where the itinerary stops for lunch.
MONSTAT, Popis 2023 — population by settlement. Gornji Morinj is suppressed, so Morinj is shown as Donji Morinj only.
Hvem besøker Montenegro
Andel av utenlandske gjesters overnattinger, 2025
MONSTAT · 2025
Hvem bor her
Folketellinger, Morinj kommune
Flat for fifty-five years — every census from 1948 to 2003 put Donji Morinj between 243 and 261 people. Then a fifth of them went in twenty years, to 207. MONSTAT suppresses Gornji Morinj’s count, so the hill half is not in that number. The neighbours along the shore are smaller again: Kostanjica 77, Strp 36, Lipci 17.
A reading village on a working stream
Morinj was never a port. It had springs, olives and seafarers, and in 1803 it put a school in a private house. Widths are to scale; the Austrian band takes in the French years, 1807 to 1814.
Municipality of Kotor’s adopted Morinj plan; Wikipedia (sr, hr) on Morinj; the Morinj court file.
A day at the stream mouth
Village hours, set by one kitchen and one beach
09:00the sea is coldest where the streams come out — freshwater springs under the surface keep it that way all summer
13:00the mills open at noon and take bookings online; turn up without one and drive on
17:00the slope behind the village takes the sun off the shore early
22:00the road empties; the stream does not
I verdenspressen
Morinj reaches the foreign press for one reason, and it is not the mills. By a decision of the command of the IX Naval Sector Boka, the Yugoslav People’s Army ran what its own paperwork called a "centre for the reception of prisoners" here from 3 October 1991 to 18 August 1992. Three buildings held Croatian prisoners of war and civilians; interrogation was done in others. Three of the men held there died in the centre and three more after they left it.
2018
tportalMontenegro has paid €1.43 million in court-ordered damages to former Morinj detainees, says the lawyer who acted for them.
2022
Radio Free EuropeA memorial plaque goes up at the site on 10 October; about fifty residents block the road over its wording, and the prime minister calls for it to come down.
The case ended with the Higher Court in Podgorica (Ks.br.19/12, 31 July 2013), confirmed on appeal (Kž-S.br.44/13, 27 February 2014): four former JNA reservists convicted of a war crime against prisoners of war, two to four years each. The Centre for Civic Education publishes the file in full.
1803
I mellomtiden, i 1803
The year the village opened a school
Morinj,1803: the village opens a school taught in the vernacular — the first in Montenegro, says Kotor’s adopted plan. It starts in the house of Pavle Tripov Matković and his wife Andrijana, moves later to Kirilo Milinović’s, and is joined to the provincial state school in 1871. A library follows in 1843.
The Boka —Venice has been gone six years and the bay is Austrian. The French take it in 1807 and Austria takes it back in 1814; the school outlasts all three.
Paris:Napoleon sells Louisiana to the United States, doubling the size of the country that buys it.
Serbia —Karađorđe’s uprising is a year away. Tomo Đurov Milinović (1770–1846), born here and taught his letters by a deacon in the village, will make his cannons — two of them in 1813, each in five pieces of 35 kg — and command his artillery at Deligrad.
Stemmer
“The plague did the killing — moriti — and the name it left behind was Morinj.”
Lokal legende
How the village got its name
“Among fire, water and wolves’ teeth I raise these pillars for the Orthodox people, 1848. Krile M.”
Inscription on the old school, Morinj
Built into the north façade, beside plaques to Tomo Milinović and to the first school in the vernacular. The ground floor holds the local council, the first floor the primary school. Transcribed in Kotor’s adopted Morinj plan.
Sammenlign alle hoteller i Morinj
Søk blant tusenvis av hoteller og leiligheter med oppdaterte priser.
Morinj ligger innerst i Kotorbukta, ved kystveien mellom Herceg Novi og Risan. Det er omtrent 20 km fra Herceg Novi og omtrent like langt fra Kotor, klemt inn i kroken der bukta snevrer seg.
Hva er Morinj kjent for?
Vannet sitt. Flere korte, kalde bekker kommer ned fra Orjen-massivet og når sjøen her etter bare noen hundre meter, noe som før drev møller og fortsatt holder bygda uvanlig grønn. Møtet mellom ferskvann og salt gir Morinj særpreget.
Er Morinj verdt et måltid?
Ryktet står ikke i forhold til størrelsen, takket være møllerestaurantene mellom bekkene og den gamle steinen. I sesongen lønner det seg å bestille bord — folk kjører hit fra andre siden av bukta nettopp for å spise.
Finnes det strender i Morinj?
Små steinstrender langs sjøkanten, rolige og grunne, der det kalde bekkevannet merkbart senker sjøtemperaturen nær utløpene. Det passer til et rolig bad snarere enn en dag på stranden.
Er Morinj en god base?
For et rolig opphold med bil, ja. Stedet ligger omtrent midtveis mellom Herceg Novi og Kotor, Perast og Risan er minutter unna, og fergen ved Kamenari gjør Tivat og Budva-rivieraen greie å nå.
Hva kan man gjøre rundt Morinj?
Gå langs bekkene og mølleruinene, bade fra steinstranden, kjøre eller ta båt til Perast og Vår Frue av klippene, se de romerske mosaikkene i Risan, og bruke bygda som utgangspunkt for turer opp mot Orjen.
Hvor varmt er sjøen i Morinj?
Fra rundt 13 °C i februar til 25 °C i august. Den holder seg over 22 °C fra juni til september — badesesongen. Regionale normaler fra stasjonen Herceg Novi, ikke en måling for byen selv.
Hvor langt er det fra Morinj til Lipci?
1,7 km langs vei, omtrent 4 min med bil.
Er Morinj trygt?
Det britiske utenriksdepartementet (FCDO) fraråder ikke reiser til Montenegro; rådene ble sist gjennomgått 13. august 2026. Det er deres vurdering av landet som helhet, ikke vår og ingen dom over Morinj — les den selv før du reiser. Nødnummeret i Montenegro er 112.
Morinj gjennom året
junBeach season — loungers and beach bars from June to September — entry free, about €4–8 a lounger, and the water stays cold at the stream mouths all summer
Den lokale tallerkenen
Grilled fish, in a mill that pressed its own oil
Morinj’s mills ground grain and pressed olives for the villages around it almost to the middle of the twentieth century. Four still stand. Three are derelict — one of them keeping its original mill machinery on the ground floor — and the fourth, the Ćatović family’s, was restored in 1994 on a property the family had held two hundred years. It took the BIG SEE Tourism Design Award in 2020 for creative story and identity.
Hvor Ćatovića Mlini, in the mill gardens above the shore road — noon to 22:30, reservations online; plus the restaurants and café on the beach at Donji Morinj
By tradition Dragomanovići — renamed for the plague
Morinj i tall
207
Innbyggere
2023 census, Donji Morinj settlement
Trn
Elven
the mills were built where it comes out of the ground, and it reaches the sea inside the village
3
Kirker
sv. Jovan Bogoslov (16th c.), sv. Sava (1873) and sv. Tripun — an older sv. Jovan at Svrčak fell in the 1667 earthquake
1803
Åpnet
the school, taught in the vernacular; a library followed in 1843
Kotor region
UNESCO-listet
Kotor’s adopted plan puts Morinj inside the Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor, on the World Heritage list
7.2 km
Båten
to the Kamenari ramp and the crossing at Verige — Kotor is 24.7 km by road, Perast 12.7
MONSTAT, Popis 2023 (Donji Morinj settlement) · Municipality of Kotor’s adopted Morinj plan · Wikipedia (sr, hr) · road distances from mojaavantura.com
Buktens form
Stedene på sine virkelige posisjoner; vannet tegnet som et bånd
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