Staying in Zen Villa, while enjoying the local beaches and sightseeing attractions in Paštrovići try to enrich your vacation and to extract at least one day for a short trip that will give you extra experience and an unforgettable travelling experience. We recommend that you choose one of the following destinations:
Budva is one of the oldest and now most famous tourist centers in this part of the coast, where the beaches will leave you breathless. Behind the walls of the Old Town is a small pebble beach Ricardo’s head, and soon after there is Mogren beach (a proud holder of a blue flag for the purity of the water) which consists of two beaches connected by a tunnel.
Monastery Praskvica is a monastery of the Serbian Orthodox Church. It is dedicated to Saint Nicholas. He represented the spiritual and political center of Paštrović. The name was obtained by the nearby stream, which had the taste of scratch-peach.
In 1307 the monastery appeared in written sources (when King Milutin came on his way to Kotor). King Milutin confirmed the property already given by Queen Jelena Anžujska to the monastery on that occasion. With his master Paštrovići, Zeta Balša III Balsic built here a church of St. Nicholas, in 1413, giving her part of her possessions.
The Monastery of Reževići is a monastery of the Serbian Orthodox Church from the 13th century and belongs to the Montenegrin-Littoral Metropolitanate.
The monastery temple was built by Stefan the First Priest and was dedicated to the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos. The second temple was built by the Emperor Dusan and dedicated to St. Stephen. In the middle of the 16th century, both houses were robbed and destroyed.
In 1714, the monastery came to the monastery Maksim Kosijerevac, from the Kosijer monastery, who restored both churches and founded a monastery. His work was continued by Nikodim Vukovic, who in 1770 erected a larger church dedicated to the Holy Trinity, which was completely completed by Jerome Dimitri Perazic in 1814.
It was erected in the 14th century during the era of Stefan Uros IV Dusan, at an altitude of about 450 meters, on a plateau above the Praskvica monastery. The monastery was the target of the monastery of Decan, and the masons, after mingling, often went from there to Dečani. Unlike the other monasteries in Paštrovići in Duljevo, there is only one church - a temple dedicated to the holy archdeacon Stefan. In the past, the monastery suffered several times, but Paštrovići managed to restore it. A special value is a painting in the older part of the temple, and a great wealth of frescoes was discovered after the earthquake of 1979, when a part of the temple was demolished. There was also a monastery school in Dulevo.
The Gradiste Monastery belongs to the Mitropolia of the Montenegrin-Littoral Serbian Orthodox Church. It is located in Buljarica, three kilometers from Petrovac, on a small hill above the main road leading to Bar. After the folk tradition, the monastery Gradiste was erected in the 11th century on the remains of an ancient antique building. The first mention of the monastery was in the 14th century, in the Order of King Milutin from 1305, which confirms that his mother, Queen Jelena, donated her to the monastery of the Virgin of Ratac. In the second command, written in Kotor in 1310, it is written that King Milutin encloses the monastery estate.
Since its inception, the monastery has been attacked and burnt repeatedly, and the cruelest retribution was experienced in 1785 by the Turks, led by Mahmud Pasha Bushatli. Because of this, he was threatened with a strong wall with high towers and loopholes, so that he could defend himself from Turkish uprisings. The wall and the tower have been demolished, but their foundations have been preserved to this day.
In the Second World War it was looted and burned by the Italians. During the earthquake that hit Montenegro in April 1979, the roofs and walls of the monastery churches were demolished.
Sveti Stefan is a village not far from Budva. Sveti Stefan is now connected with the land by a narrow landing. This island is the most luxurious resort in Montenegro and one of the most luxurious resorts in the Adriatic Sea.
According to the tradition, on the island of Sveti Stefan, in the later centuries, the cultural and historical center of Paštrović, the fort was built in 1442, when it was inhabited by the first inhabitants. The fort was surrounded by walls so that families from the surrounding villages could be sheltered from them before the Turks and the pirates. According to the legend, the settlement originated after the Turkish siege of the city of Kotor, when Paštrovići decided to massage with about a thousand people to help this city. Paštrovići and Kotorani performed a victory over the Turks. On the return from the battle, near the beach Jaz, not far from the Old Town (Budva), they noticed the remaining Turkish galleys. They decided to re-attack and get rich prey. From the captured prey, a fortress was erected, with one house for each of the twelve Pashtro tribes. These fortified settlements gave the name Sveti Stefan, by the name of the church of Sv. Stefana (dedicated to Archduke Stefano Prvomučenik), which was built at that time in the time of Nemanjić.
Boka Bay is a unique, one of the most beautiful scenes that you can afford to see, a place that nature has created during its greatest moments of inspiration, and a man only tried to enrich this beautiful place even more.
The City is located only some 30 km from the sea and can be reached by perpendicular road that will take you, in a very short amount of time, from the coastal area to between the mountain chains sharp of the Mount Lovcen. Once you are in town, go straight to the Cetinje monastery, which since the 15th century represents a historical and cultural center of the whole nation. The monastery houses relics of inestimable value, the hand of St. John the Baptist, the particles of the Holy Cross, relics of St. Peter of Cetinje, epitrachelion of St. Sava and the crown of King Stephen of Decani. The monastery is the seat of the Diocese and the spiritual beacon, not only for this county or Montenegro, but for the entire Orthodox world. Then, visit the famous building by the Billiards that in 1838 the most famous ruler of Montenegro, Bishop Petar II Petrovic Njegos, that is also one of the greatest poets in Serbian literature, build as his residence. In it you will find out why these people are considered offshoots of freedom in the Balkans, and also the Light-bearer of the highest artistic talent and feeling. In the court of King Nikola I Petrovic of Montenegro the State Museum is situated, and the building of the former Government now houses Historical and Art Museums. Be sure to visit the buildings of the French and the Russian Embassies, and the building of the Serbian Embassy is now the Ethnographic Museum.
