We will start the story about Montenegro with the legend of a steep and narrow footpath leading all the way from the Adriatic Sea high up into mountains.
On a hot summer's day, a local tribesman was making his way up this steep pathway and after many hours he reached a well. Being consumed with thirst, he went close up to it and spoke out loud: "You are streaming now, but not much longer!"
The well exists only in this legend but the footpath exists even today, although nobody goes that way anymore. It is overgrown and has been abandoned for a long time, like an umbilical cord hidden after birth, but this is the road from which the state of Montenegro grew.
All around are steep cliffs, bare, grey and almost a thousand metres high. Down there is the sea.
And not just the sea but also one of the most beautiful bays in the world and the town of Kotor, for centuries the southernmost Christian settlement along the Adriatic coast of the Balkans, first under Venetian rule,
|
later under the Austro-Hungarian crown and today part of Montenegro.
High above, passing over the mountain tops, you enter Montenegro. Most of the people from down here were in disbelief that anyone could live up there. Watching those cliffs, on high grounds, was the mythical kingdom of freedom, the “Nest of the Eagles".
What will you see when you climb up there?

Read the whole story ... |