The Saint: Island Resort’s Reopening a Boon for Montenegrin Tourism
Closed for five years by a dispute over beach access, Montenegro’s exclusive Sveti Stefan resort is poised to reopen.
A former fishing village and medieval refuge from Ottoman attack, it can be approached from several directions.
One route winds across the Pastrovici hills, named for the clan that once held sway here, past Mediterranean pine, wild sage and old stone dwellings; another follows the Yugoslav-made Adriatic ‘highway’, a coastal road that wends its way past beaches and old fishing settlements transformed by decades of rampant construction; a third route is via Cetinje and Budva. However, the most dramatic approach to it is in the nearby village of Blizikuce, where many tourists turn off the road toward a nearby hill with a church and a traditional stone threshing floor (guvno), offering one of the most striking views of Sveti Stefan, its stone walls and red rooftops seeming to rise like a ship from the turquoise waters of the Adriatic.
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