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Podgorica, Montenegro
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Things to do in Podgorica

Why you should go

Ninety seconds on Podgorica

The capital, and the arrival point for most flights into the country. Bombing in the Second World War left little of the old city, so what stands is largely postwar and later, with the Millennium Bridge over the Moraca as its landmark and the small Ottoman quarter of Stara Varos as the exception. Most travellers pass straight through toward the coast or the mountains, an hour either way. A night here makes sense mainly for an early flight, or for the Moraca and Cijevna river gorges on the city's edge.

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  1. Centre of Contemporary Art of Montenegro, Petrović Palace

    Centre of Contemporary Art of Montenegro, Petrović Palace

    Gallery · 1 hr

    The park is half the reason to walk out here. The palace is one of several buildings this museum hangs work in and what is inside any of them changes through the year; the non aligned collection is the part that is always its own.

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  2. Ruins of Doclea

    Ruins of Doclea

    Ruins · 1.5 hr

    Foundations in a field, with a map and a description at each building and an unstaffed hut by the gate where a fee would be paid. What it asks of a visitor is the patience to read a plan on the ground.

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  3. Podgorica Old Town

    Landmark · 1.5 hr

    The Ottoman core of Podgorica, holding the Clock Tower built in 1667 by Hadži-paša Osmanagić, one of the very few Ottoman landmarks to survive the bombing of the city in the Second World War. Its turret clock mechanism was made in 1890 in Bassano del Grappa.

  4. Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ

    Cathedral · 30 min

    Fifteen minutes inside and easy parking make it the simplest stop in a city with little else for visitors.

  5. Podgorica Clock Tower

    Tower · 30 min

    Five minutes on foot from parking in the old quarter; combine it with a coffee stop before the border.

  6. Stara Varoš

    Quarter · 1 hr

    An hour is plenty, and it works well as the coffee stop before the Albanian border queue.

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