Nord-Montenegro

Plav

Four-fifths Muslim and two-thirds Bosniak, at the head of the Lim: a timber mosque of 1471, a fortified tower nobody can date, and Montenegro’s largest glacial lake under the wall of Prokletije.

4 121 innbyggere
946 moh.
TGD lufthavn · 114 km
Oldest dated building, 1471

Plav er en fjellby ved kanten av en gletsjø som bærer samme navn, satt mot det dramatiske bakteppet til Prokletije-fjellrekken, kjent som de forbannede fjellene. Gletsjøen Plav har Hrid, en karakteristisk steinet øy som stiger fra vannene. De omliggende toppene, som når over 2500 meter, tilbyr krevende foturer og uberørt alpint landskap langs grensen med Albania. Plavs moské fra ottomansk tid og multikulturelle arv gjenspeiler århundrer av mangfoldige påvirkninger i dette fjerntliggende nordlige hjørnet av Montenegro.

The north emptied. Plav did not.

Population change 2011 to 2023, Plav and seven northern neighbours

Thirty-one people fewer across twelve years. Rožaje is the only northern municipality that grew; Plav is the only other one that essentially held, while Pljevlja lost 6,652 and Plužine a third of everyone it had.

MONSTAT censuses 2011 and 2023, municipality level

The border that took thirty-four years to move

Europe gave Plav to Montenegro in 1878 and Plav stayed Ottoman until 1912. Widths are to scale.

A day in the basin

A working town of four thousand under a national park

07:00first light on the lake, with the Prokletije wall standing in the water
11:00the Redžepagić tower museum, its loopholes and its ćošak balconies, above the centre
12:00the Carska džamija compound on the Meteriz rise, where a cannon still marks iftar through Ramadan
18:00the splav raft on the lake: pedal boats, kayaks, and the last swim of the day

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Hvor ligger Plav?

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Treaty of Berlin, 1878 · Milosević 2013 · Morrison 2018 · Tourist Organisation of Plav.

Plav ligger ved bredden av Plav-sjøen helt øst i Montenegro, i dalen til øvre Lim under Prokletije-fjellene og nær grensen til Albania. Det er omtrent to timer med bil fra Podgorica.

Hva er Plav-sjøen?

En bresjø på rundt to kvadratkilometer på 906 moh., matet av Ljuča og drenert av Lim. Den er grunn, omkranset av enger og siv, og brukes til båt og fiske heller enn bading — vannet holder seg kaldt.

Hva er Prokletije?

Den høyeste og villeste kjeden i Dinaridene, delt med Albania og Kosovo og ofte kalt De forbannede fjell. Den montenegrinske siden ble nasjonalpark i 2009, og Plav er en av de to hovedportene inn.

Hva er verdt å se i byen?

Redžepagić-tårnet, et befestet steinhus flere hundre år gammelt, og sultanmoskeen fra 1471 er de to landemerkene. Byen har et tydelig bosniakkisk og albansk preg, synlig i arkitekturen og på tallerkenen.

Hvilke turer starter fra Plav?

Peaks of the Balkans, en langdistansesti som binder sammen Montenegro, Albania og Kosovo, går gjennom området. Kortere dager går til Ali pasjas kilder, Hridsko-sjøen og stølene i liene over dalen.

Når er det best å reise?

Juni til september, når høystiene er bare og stølene i bruk. Vinteren er streng og interesserer mest randonnéfolk. Grensepasseringstillatelser for de grensekryssende rutene må ordnes på forhånd.

Har Plav flyplass?

Nei — den nærmeste er Podgorica lufthavn (TGD), 114 km unna langs vei.

Hvor langt er det fra Plav til Murino?

12,7 km langs vei, omtrent 20 min med bil.

Er Plav 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 Plav — les den selv før du reiser. Nødnummeret i Montenegro er 112.

Plav i tall

9,050
Innbyggere: 946 m
Høyde over havet: 1471
Moskeen: 219 km
Elven: 2009
Parken: 180+
Fuglearter

MONSTAT 2023 census, municipality and settlement tables · Tourist Organisation of Plav · Prokletije National Park · National Tourist Organisation of Montenegro

Her ligger Plav

De nærmeste stedene rundt Plav, plassert der de faktisk ligger – Rožaje ligger omtrent 33 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.

Hvor lang tid trenger du i Plav?

Noen timer

1Kula Redžepagića — two stone storeys with walls over a metre thick, a pine čardak added on top, and loopholes spread over every wall; a museum since 1979
2The Carska džamija of 1471 on the Meteriz rise: turf and timber, a 10 m wooden minaret rising out of the roof, and a tarih of 1869 above the carved doors — the only one in the Plav–Gusinje area cut into wood instead of stone
3Bećiragića kula, raised in 1899, which carries what the tourist board calls the longest and finest calligraphic inscription in the region — two panels of stone under a crescent and star
4Down to the lake shore, a few minutes below the square

Three monuments and a lake, all within a walk. Two hours cover the town.

En hel dag

1The town first, then out 2 km to Brezojevice
2Sv. Trojice under the Gradac hill — rebuilt in 1567 on the walls of an older monastery, single-nave, no dome and no belfry on the church itself
3The Velemun botanical garden next to it: about 250 Prokletije endemics and relicts, planted from 1991 by a chemistry teacher
4Back for the water — the splav raft, a kayak, or a fly rod on the Lim and the Ljuča

Monastery, garden and lake make a full day without leaving the basin.

En helg

1Saturday: the 18 km up to Hridsko jezero at 1,970 m, a reserve of the national park set between Veliki and Mali Hrid in munika and molika pine
2The lake holds 245 species of algae, 78 of them first recorded in Montenegro right there, and an alpine newt; the story locally is that fairies bathe in it
3Sunday: Visitor, 2,211 m, for the view straight down onto Lake Plav and the basin — and Visitor’s own lake, with its grassy island that floats
4Or pick up the Peaks of the Balkans, 192 km through Montenegro, Albania and Kosovo, which the Plav tourist board runs as its main product

The town is the base; the reason to stay two nights is above 1,900 m.

Hvor bo i Plav

The centre

Best for the Meteriz rise with the Carska džamija on it, both towers, and the square the festival takes over in July

The lake shore

Best for the splav bathing raft, pedal boats and kayaks, a few minutes below the centre, and the light on the water at dawn

Brezojevice, 2 km out

Best for the Sv. Trojice monastery and the Velemun garden; 746 people at the 2023 census

Vojni Grad and Bogajići

Best for villages on the way up — Bogajići is where the two-hour winter walk-in to the Paljevi ski slope starts

Hvem besøker Montenegro

Andel av utenlandske gjesters overnattinger, 2025

MONSTAT · 2025

Hvem bor her

Folketellinger, Plav kommune

On today’s borders the municipality counted 9,081 people in 2011 and 9,050 in 2023 — thirty-one fewer, where its neighbours lost thousands. The 2023 census gives 65.64% Bosniaks, 17.08% Serbs, 9.43% Albanians, 4.11% Montenegrins and 2.61% ethnic Muslims; Gusinje, the south-western third of the old territory, has been a municipality of its own since February 2014.

I verdenspressen

What Montenegrin outlets have reported from Plav and the park above it. Paraphrased, not quoted.

2021
CdM Šućo Redžepagić, born in the Redžepagić tower and living in it until 1978, curates the museum it became — and says there is no exact record of when it was built.
2021
CdM Montenegro and Albania open the joint Zatrijebačka Cijevna–Grabon crossing on 3 August, connecting Podgorica to the Plav–Gusinje basin through Albania.
2021
Borba Prokletije national park has been visited by 14,000 tourists, the paper reports at the end of August.
2025
Pobjeda A new attraction for Prokletije: the Via ferrata Volušnica is being built.
2026
RTCG The 26th Dani borovnice closes on 4 August with thousands of visitors at the events in Plav.
2026
CdM National Parks reports Prokletije admissions up 24 per cent from January to mid-August, second only to Lovćen among the five parks.

Dated items from named Montenegrin outlets, 2021–2026.

I mellomtiden, i 1912

The year the map caught up with the treaty

Plav, 1912: the Montenegrin army enters the town on 19 and 20 October, in the First Balkan War. Thirty-four years after the Treaty of Berlin awarded Plav and Gusinje to Montenegro on paper, the transfer happens on the ground.
Why it took so long — on 4 December 1879 a League of Prizren force under Ali Pasha of Gusinje beat Marko Miljanov’s Montenegrins at Novšiće, a village down the Lim from here. The Berlin cession was abandoned and Ulcinj was handed over on the coast instead.
The cost — the military administration that followed the entry lasted until March 1913 and is recorded as up to 1,800 killings, mostly of local Muslim Albanians, and 12,000 forced conversions to Orthodoxy.
The sequel — in 1919 the Plav rebellion rose against Sandžak’s inclusion in the new Kingdom; about 450 local civilians were killed when it was put down, and Albanians left the valley for Albania in numbers.

Stemmer

“Who raised the Redžepagić tower has not been established with certainty.”

The tower’s date

The Tourist Organisation of Plav writes it that way, gives 1671 and Hasan-beg Redžepagić as the reported date, and records a tradition placing the tower in the 15th century under Ali Muče, raised against the Kelmendi. The curator Šućo Redžepagić told CdM in 2021 that the stone part may be older still and that the pine čardak went on in the 17th century — while the family itself is documented as arriving in Plav only in the 1650s.

“They say the fairies bathe in it.”

Lokal legende

Hridsko jezero, the lake of happiness

Plav gjennom året

janPaljevi — the ski slope on Kofiljača: half an hour up a gravel road, or two hours on foot through snow from Bogajići; one cable lift of about 300 m, room for some 150 skiers, and roast potatoes at the Zuvdijin konak cabin
maiLimska regata — three days and three rafting stages, starting from the rafts on Lake Plav and running down the Lim through Andrijevica, Berane, Bijelo Polje, Prijepolje and Priboj; late May or early June, depending on the water
julDani borovnice — the town’s own festival, in its 26th edition in 2026, when it ran from 13 July to 4 August: the pickers’ caravan, a blueberry harvest inside the national park, a fair with tasting on Trg Plav, folklore from across the north, and a hydro-avio regata on the lake rafts
augBostanijada and Festival kolomboća — the watermelon and corn fair — 23 August in 2026 — with the Visitor hike on the 22nd and Kajaking Ljučom on the 29th
sepPlavski književni susreti and the Likovna kolonija — held in September by the Husein Bašić Centre for Culture, which calls the Susreti the oldest literary event in Montenegro after Ratkovićeve večeri poezije; the Prokletije Trail runs 18–20 September in 2026

Den lokale tallerkenen

Borovnica

The blueberry is what Plav is known for outside Plav. It is picked on the Prokletije slopes inside the national park in July, tasted and sold as juice and jam at the agriculture and handicraft fair on the square, and gives its name to the three weeks that are the town’s year — Dani borovnice, which closes with the crowning of Mis borovnice.

Hvor The fair on Trg Plav during Dani borovnice; on the mountain, the katuns above the lake

Klimaet i korte trekk

Beste reisetid: juni · juli · september

Hvor langt er det?

Sted	Langs vei	Kjøretid
Murino	12,7 km	ca. 20 min
Gusinje	13,2 km	ca. 21 min
Andrijevica	24,7 km	ca. 34 min
Berane	42 km	ca. 57 min
Podgorica	84,3 km	ca. 2 t 8 min
Budva	143,2 km	ca. 3 t 24 min
Kotor	155,1 km	ca. 3 t 35 min

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