Montenegro country happens to be a home to some of the oldest and most secluded urban settlements on the Balkans, as well as the Adriatic coastline, providing visitors with a unique opportunity to discover and explore the rich past of this region.

This is a guide to those precise cities and towns, castles and forts, or whatever it is you’d like to call them. These ancient Montenegro cities, as well as the old town part of the famous coastal cities, are places you should definitely come to visit if you have chance while traveling our beautiful country, being that they are tactile reminders and living testimonies of Montenegro’s rich and tumultuous history.

There are more than a few historical monuments in Montenegro, but some of them happen to be located off the beaten path, whether high up in the rocky mountains, or on the sea, either way considered to be greatly unapproachable, or, if not that, very hard to spot. Some of these forts happen to be graced with more than just a dark past, or as products of multiple wars that raged through this area – today, they are corporeal witnesses of the times that have passed by.

Same of famous forteresses are: Kanli kula, Mamula, Goražda, Bedem Niksić, Mogren, Haj Nehaj, Kampana, Citadella, Castello, Lesendro, Žabljak Crnojevića, Medun, Ribnica, Velje Brdo, Ribnica, Spuž, Gradina Martinićka, Sv.Andrija, Šanik, Kom, Kosmač, Arza, Trašte, Vrmac, Verige, Dvršnik, San Giovanni, Španjola, Besac etc.