Top 10 Sights & Landmarks in Kolasin Municipality, Kolasin Municipality

This is one of the most famous monasteries in Montenegro. It is 25 km away from Kolasin and was built on the right bank of Moraca in mid-13th century by a grandson of Stefan Nemanja - Stevan. There is a monastery church inside the complex which is dedicated to the Assumption of the Holy Virgin.

The monument is located on the main city square and it is dedicated to victims of fascist terror. It was built only a couple of years after the end of World War II. It is work of a sculptor Vojin Bakic.

This church was built on the foundations of a small chapel-church dedicated to St. John. It is situated on a small hill near the Upper City Square. There was an observation tower on this site during the Ottoman rule.

The view over the rainforest of Biogradska Gora, which stretches from the Bendovac Viewpoint, will make you appreciate the rare beauty of this place. In the spring you can observe the green splendour of the trees and other vegetation, while in the autumn you will be enchanted by the immense abundance of colours of the place.

Parts of the Cultural Center, which is located next to the Heritage Museum, are the Library, the Internet Center, CAA and a gift shop. The center carries out projects of cultural, historical and educational importance and is the organizer of most of the cultural events in the city.

Situated on the mountain top Kljuc on Bjelasica, in the village Recine which is around 10 km away from Kolasin, this monastery provides a special experience of the beautiful nature and religious tourism. There is a chapel built above the monastery, modeled after Njegos's chapel on Lovcen. The monastery was built in 1999 by a priest who still serves in it.

A memorial complex - cemetery for the killed patriots was erected in the place where over 70 Montenegrin partisans who were in prison were shot. After the war, the mounds with names of the shot and the killed were made. This place became a symbol of the fight for freedom in the post-war period where numerous meetings and markings of historic dates were held.

This is a magnificent house which was built by the prominent merchants from Kolasin, the Maric brothers, in the beginning of the 20th century. It was built in the secession style as a reflection of the new urban concept of Kolasin according to which the houses in Kolasin where increasingly modeled by other European cities after the liberation from the Turks.

A monument to the war capital of Montenegro which occupies the central part of the city square was built in the honor of the 1st Session of the Terrestrial anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Montenegro and the Bay of Kotor. It was designed by a Slovenian architect Marko Music. Busts of national heroes from the area of Kolasin were sculpted and built around this home.