Savina Monastery

Name: Savina Monastery
Address: Herceg Novi, Montenegro

Monastery

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Monastery · Herceg Novi, Montenegro 42.4535°N 18.5551°E

Why you should go

Ninety seconds on Savina Monastery

Time needed

1 to 2 hoursChurches, museum, gardens

Best time

MorningQuiet, before the heat

Cost

FreeSmall fee for the museum

Effort

20 to 30 min walkUphill from the old town

Cover shoulders and knees before the gate, and save some legs for the forest stairs above the complex. The third church at the top has the view the courtyard only hints at.

Visiting

Savina's older church is about the size of a bedroom, unrestored and so dark inside that midday feels like night. The Great Church beside it is the opposite: pews set along the walls, dense ornament, and an iconostasis painted by Simeon Lazović with his son. A small museum in the monastery residence shows the treasury. The shop sells wine from the monks' own vineyard behind the complex, along with bitters and loza. Above it all, winding stairways climb through the forest past crumbling walls to the Church of Saint Sava, where the viewpoint puts the two lower churches in the foreground with the bay beyond.

Know before you goThis is an active monastery. Shoulders and knees must be covered, and cover-ups are provided by the monks if you arrive without. Photography inside the churches may be restricted.

Savina Monastery

Why you should go

Visiting

Nearby

Herceg Novi Old Town

Bay of Kotor

Porto Montenegro