
A hundred and seventy-one people at a crossroads on the upper Lim — one road for Plav and Gusinje, one climbing to the Čakor pass and Peć — and the place Montenegro means when it talks about 1999.
Murino er en liten by nær Plav i nordøstlige Montenegro, liggende langs Lim-elven. Det fungerer som et lokalt senter for de omkringliggende fjellbyene og gir tilgang til de vakre landskapene i Prokletije-fjellrekken. Byen har et avslappet tempo og en blanding av montenegrinsk og bosniakisk kultur.

Den komplette guiden
Murino er en liten fjellby i nordøst Montenegro, plassert i den øvre Lim-dalen mellom Plav og Berane. Det fungerer som en nordlig port til Prokletije-fjellene, med Hajla-toppen i nærheten og tradisjonell fjellkultur som fortsatt er intakt.
Les hele guiden til MurinoMurino i tall
2023 census — 99 male, 72 female; thirteenth of the twenty Plav settlements MONSTAT publishes
the valley floor at the junction; the Čakor pass, on the road above the village, stands at 1,849 m
the Lim passes the village on its way out of Lake Plav to the Drina — Black Sea water, not Adriatic
a stone bridge over the Lim entered service here that December, reported in Politika on the 7th
Podgorica, by road down the Lim to Andrijevica, then over the Trešnjevik pass to the motorway
MONSTAT, Popis 2023 settlement workbook · Politika, 7 December 1936 · Tourist Organisation of Plav · road distances measured on OpenStreetMap data · SRTM elevation
Plav municipality, village by village
Residents by settlement, 2023 census
The town of Plav holds nearly half the municipality on its own. Murino is thirteenth of the twenty settlements MONSTAT publishes, and the only one in the municipality whose dead the state recognises as civilian victims of war.
An Ottoman register of 1582–83 lists the Plav nahiyah, eighteen villages in the Sanjak of Scutari, and Ottoman the valley stayed until 1912. Widths are to scale.
A day at the junction
A village of 171 on the only road to Plav and Gusinje
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English Wikipedia (Plav); Serbian Wikipedia (Plav, Čakor, Murino); Politika, 7 December 1936; RFE/RL.
Murino er en bygd i Plav kommune øst i Montenegro, ved Lim i dalen mellom Andrijevica og Plav. Den ligger under forfjellene til Prokletije, om lag to timer fra Podgorica.
NATO-fly traff brua i bygda 30. april 1999 under Kosovo-kampanjen. Seks sivile ble drept, tre av dem barn. Et minnesmerke i bygda oppgir navnene deres, og datoen markeres her hvert år.
Minnesmerket, elva og selve dalen. Murino er et lite sted ved en gjennomfartsvei snarere enn et reisemål, men omgivelsene — Lim mellom skogkledde lier med de høye toppene bak — er grunn nok til å senke farten.
Det fungerer som en stopp, ikke som base. Plav og Gusinje, tjue minutter videre, har overnatting, guider og startpunktene for Prokletije; Murino har noen få rom og lite annet.
Dalveien mellom Andrijevica og Plav er god og vakker, og følger Lim hele strekningen. Om vinteren holdes den åpen, men kan gå tregt, og sideveiene inn til bygdene er en helt annen sak.
Om sommeren for fjellene bortenfor, og om høsten for selve dalen, når bøkeskogene på begge sider skifter farge. Om vinteren er det få grunner til å stoppe, med mindre du skal til bakkene over Plav.
Nei — den nærmeste er Podgorica lufthavn (TGD), 103 km unna langs vei.
12,7 km langs vei, omtrent 20 min med bil.
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 Murino — les den selv før du reiser. Nødnummeret i Montenegro er 112.
De nærmeste stedene rundt Murino, plassert der de faktisk ligger – Rožaje ligger omtrent 31 km unna i luftlinje.
Skjematisk. Plasseringer og avstander er i luftlinje, basert på koordinatene vi har for hvert sted; fjellveier gjør kjøreturen lengre. Den tykke linjen er kysten der den går gjennom dette utsnittet. Kystlinje og Skadarsjøen © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Noen timer
Half an hour on foot, most of it at the memorial. There is no more to see, and no need for more.
En hel dag
Murino is the hinge of the upper Lim — the lake, the pass and Andrijevica all sit within fifteen kilometres of the crossroads.
Murino itself
Best for the junction village: 171 residents and an hour’s worth of things to see — sleep up or down the valley
Plav
Best for eleven kilometres up: a town of 4,121, the lake at 907 m, and where the region’s rooms actually are
Andrijevica
Best for fourteen kilometres down the Lim at 750 m, where the road over Trešnjevik to Mateševo and the motorway starts
Hvem besøker Montenegro
Andel av utenlandske gjesters overnattinger, 2025
MONSTAT · 2025
Folketellinger, Murino kommune
These are the settlement’s own counts, not the municipality’s: 545 people in 2003, 462 in 2011, 171 at the 2023 census. Plav municipality barely moved between the last two counts, 9,081 to 9,050 — but inside it the town of Plav grew, from 3,717 to 4,121.
Murino reaches the national news on two subjects — what happened on 30 April 1999, and what the state owes for it — and once, in 2025, on a road sign.
Nova srpska politička misao Tatjana Lazarević reconstructs the afternoon: a first bomb by the bridge, the next on the shop, and four girls of whom two did not come home.
RFE/RL Montenegro’s law on civilian war victims reaches the dead of Murino and Tuzi and almost nobody else: “a selective approach”.
RFE/RL A sign at the Murino junction places Peć in Serbia. An artist from Plav films the crew fitting it, an MP demands the government act, and it comes down on 6 April; the fitter says the instructions came from Podgorica.
RFE/RL The government awards €100,000 each to sixteen families of civilian victims of the 1990s wars — the 1992 deportations, Štrpci in 1993, and the 1999 strikes on Murino and Tuzi.
Three of the four are from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Balkan service, which has followed the compensation question longest.
I mellomtiden, i 1999
Murino, 30 April: NATO bombs strike the village at the junction. Six civilians are killed — girls of nine and twelve, a boy of thirteen, and three adults of forty-seven, sixty-three and sixty-seven — and four people are seriously hurt. It is the heaviest civilian toll of the campaign anywhere in Montenegro.
The shop — the fullest account puts the attack at four in the afternoon: a first bomb in front of the bridge about a kilometre off, taken locally for a warning, then the next one directly on the village shop.
The campaign — Operation Allied Force ran seventy-eight days, 24 March to 10 June. Murino was struck in its sixth week, with six more still to run.
Montenegro — the republic is bombed several times through the spring, and NATO declines to shore up the precarious position of its anti-Milošević leader, Milo Đukanović.
“Six civilians were killed in Murino, three of them children, and four people were injured.”
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 30 April 2025
The same count stands in the Serbian Wikipedia entry, which gives the children’s ages as nine, twelve and thirteen and four adults seriously hurt, and in the English Wikipedia record of civilian casualties in Operation Allied Force.
“The next bomb fell directly on the shop.”
Tatjana Lazarević, Nova srpska politička misao, 24 March 2015
Her reconstruction puts the attack at four in the afternoon, after a first bomb in front of the bridge about a kilometre off, and names the dead: Julija Brudar, 9; Olivera Maksimović, 12; Miroslav Knežević, 13; Vukić Vuletić, 47; Milka Kocanović, 63; Manojlo Komatina, 67. Two more girls, running a hundred metres behind their sisters, survived with scratches.
aprThe thirtieth of April — the anniversary of the 1999 strike; six civilians were killed here that afternoon, three of them children
maiLimska regata — late May or early June, depending on the water — three days and 134 km from the rafts on Lake Plav down past Murino to Andrijevica, Berane, Bijelo Polje, Prijepolje and Priboj; the 2025 edition set off on 30 May
julDani borovnice, Plav — the blueberry festival eleven kilometres up the valley; the 2023 edition, the twenty-third, ran 15–31 July
novSnow on Čakor — traffic over the pass above the village stops regularly in the winter months for snow and avalanches
Den lokale tallerkenen
The water that runs past the junction is why anglers come to this valley. Between Lake Plav, the Ljuča and the Lim it holds brown trout and the endemic blatnjača, grayling, huchen, pike and nase; the European fly-fishing championship was held on the lake and the two rivers in July 2019.
Hvor The restaurants in Plav, eleven kilometres up the valley, and in Andrijevica, fourteen down
Beste reisetid: april · mai · oktober
| Sted | Langs vei | Kjøretid |
|---|---|---|
| Plav | 12,7 km | ca. 20 min |
| Andrijevica | 15,6 km | ca. 23 min |
| Gusinje | 21,6 km | ca. 33 min |
| Berane | 32,9 km | ca. 46 min |
| Podgorica | 95,1 km | ca. 2 t 10 min |
| Budva | 154,1 km | ca. 3 t 26 min |
| Kotor | 166 km | ca. 3 t 38 min |
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