Sveti Marko Island

Sveti Marko Island is a mysterious green island in Montenegro, west of the Tivat peninsula Prevlaka. It once featured 500 Tahiti-style tourist houses and was leased by the French club “Mediterranee,” but today it lies abandoned, overgrown with weeds, and awaits new ownership.

Location and Access to Sveti Marko Island

The island with a nice beach is situated west from the Tivat peninsula Prevlaka (Coating). To the island you can come by a tourist taxi boats or barges, which are usually anchored in the Tivat harbor. The Island Sveti Marko, today is a mysterious green island, on which in 1962, a tourist lodgment with 500 Tahiti houses with no electricity and water were built. The Island Sveti Marko for decades was an exclusive facility under the lease of the French club “Mediterranee”.

Historical and Current State of Sveti Marko Island

Until the war in the area of SFRJ, (until 1991.) the guests of the island were mostly young people – adventurers, who along with the sun bathing and swimming spent their vacation enjoying in various water sports, while the numerous animator cheered them up with cultural – entertaining shows and spectacles. There used to be a hundred visitors a day on the Island Sveti Marko. Today it is a completely different story. It is abandoned, and the tourist facilities, which were built on it, are overgrown with weed and grass. The island is entirely left to the ravages of time and it waits to be bought.

Island in Tivat bay Gospa od Milosti in Montenegro

Still, if you have adventurer’s ambitions, go to this island, at least because of the beach, which will enchant you with its look.

Alternative Name and Legend

The Island Sveti Marko is differently called Stradioti, because according a legend on the island there used to be a camp of the Venetian soldiers of Greek origins, and from there stems that name (Stradiotes – soldier).