Cetinje in Montenegro
Tuesday, 15 April 2014 - 01:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union General , Union for the Mediterranean
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Cetinje, historical royal capital © FlyJacob
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Cetinjeis a city and Old Royal Capital of
Montenegro . It is also a historical and the secondary capital of Montenegro, with the official residence of the
President of Montenegro . It had a population of 14,000 as of 2011. Cetinje is a town of immense historical heritage, founded in the 15th century. It became the center of Montenegrin life and both a cradle of
Montenegrin culture and a Orthodox religious center. It is because of its heritage as a long-term Montenegrin capital that it is today the honorary capital of Montenegro.
It is the centre of Cetinje Municipality (population 17,000 in 2011). The city nestles on a small karst plain surrounded by limestone mountains, including Mt. Lovćen , the Black Mountain from which Montenegro gets its name. Cetinje was neglected as a tourist destination for a long time after the end of World War II. Instead, it was developed as an industrial center, with footwear and white goods factories (which eventually closed down with the collapse of the socialist economy). Cetinje has numerous points of interest, among which are Cetinje Monastery , Vlaška church (built in 1450, with its fence made out of barrels of captured enemy rifles), Biljarda, numerous museums, Zetski dom royal theatre and historic foreign embassies. Many of the old embassies and other administrative buildings are now schools of various kinds, and the town has many young people.
National Museum of Montenegro, Museum of Art & History © FlyJacob
In the past few years there has been a plan of enlisting the old historic core of the city of Cetinje as a UNESCO world heritage site. With this, Cetinje hopes to rebuild and restore the old historic core and the façades of its buildings. Cetinje is becoming more and more popular with tourists so the locals started painting their houses in vivid colors, the local government started quite a number of projects to restore the buildings, the markets and façades of the city of Cetinje.
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