Montenegro

Montenegro joins coastal Boka traditions with highland epic song and stonework.

Spirituality & rites Music & dance Food & cooking Building & habitat

Knowledge in this place

Boka Navy ceremony

Boka Navy ceremony

The centuries-old fraternal seafarers' guild and its costumed processions in Kotor.

Spirituality & rites

Gusle epic singing

Gusle epic singing

Heroic narrative songs accompanied by the single-string gusle.

Njegusi prosciutto

Njegusi prosciutto

Air-dried smoked ham cured in the mountain village of Njegusi.

Montenegrin dry-stone building

Montenegrin dry-stone building

Dry-stone walls and shepherd huts built across the karst highlands.

Building & habitat