Cetinje, Montenegro

Public works | Promotion | Culture | Printing houses in Cetinje | Libraries | Transport

🇲🇪 Cetinje is a city in Montenegro. It is the former royal capital of Montenegro and is the location of several national institutions, including the official residence of the president of Montenegro. Cetinje is the centre of Cetinje Municipality. The city rests on a small karst plain surrounded by limestone mountains, including Mount Lovćen, the legendary mountain in Montenegrin historiography. Cetinje was founded in the 15th century and became a cradle of the culture of Montenegro. Its status as the honorary capital of Montenegro is due to its heritage as a long-serving former capital of Montenegro.

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Public works After the decades of stagnation, the new city government began a lot of projects with the intention to revitalise the infrastructure, business and to gain a higher promotion of Cetinje in cultural, touristic and other parts. Some of that projects were the reconstruction of Cetinje Historical Core (Main Street - Njegoševa, Main Town Square, Students' Square), Beautiful Cetinje (first energy-efficiency project in Montenegro), reconstruction of the City Market, valorisation of Lipa Cave, renovation of the first hospital building in Montenegro, building a completely new utilities system, construction of a new main road at the entrance to the town, the largest fine arts university complex in the region etc. During the past period, Cetinje became first Montenegrin city which is covered by the free wi-fi signal.

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Promotion To promote Cetinje as not only cultural and artist capital of Montenegro but the whole region too, during 2012 and 2013 the city government organized events in which participated globally famous artists such as Pierce Brosnan, Marina Abramović, Gerard Depardieu, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Rem Koolhaas, who were guests of Cetinje during that period.

The most significant project for the future is a cable-car from Kotor to Cetinje, and tender is launched in August 2016.

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Culture “Zetski Dom” Theatre

Cetinje has been the cultural and educational centre of Montenegro for five centuries. There are five republic institutions: Đurđe Crnojević Central National Library, the National Museum of Montenegro, the Archives of Montenegro, the Republic Institute for Preserving Cultural Heritage and the Zetski Dom Montenegrin Royal National Theatre. All these institutions keep, process, and provide public access to enormous literary treasure, and protect both mobile and immobile cultural monuments throughout Montenegro. The oldest - and for a long time the most important - cultural institution in the town is the monastery of Cetinje.

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Printing houses in Cetinje Cetinje has a rich publishing and printing tradition. The Printing House of Crnojevići (1492–1496) and the books published there are of great importance for Montenegrin culture and history as well as for the culture of other Orthodox Balkan peoples. Its greatest contribution refers to spreading Cyrillic type. Thus, it represents an important link in a chain of world culture. There were a number of printing houses that continued this great printing tradition. These are: Njegoš Printing House, which operated between 1833 and 1839 and the State Printing House which was founded in 1858. It was renamed in 1952. Since then it has been known as Obod.

Since their foundation to the present day, Cetinje printing houses have published over 3,000 books, a major contribution to the Montenegrin cultural heritage. The first Montenegrin literary and scientific annual, Grlica (Turtledove), was published in 1835, while the first Montenegrin newspaper, ‘The Montenegrin’, was established in 1871. Since then, sixty different newspapers and over thirty magazines have been published. In 1914, as a town of fewer than 6,000 inhabitants, Cetinje supported six different daily newspapers.

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Libraries The oldest libraries of Montenegro, where the oldest books and documentation of great value are preserved, are located at Cetinje. This makes Cetinje internationally recognised as well. The oldest library among these is the Library of Cetinje Monastery, which was founded by the end of the 15th century at the time when the Printing House of Crnojevići started operating. Today, seventy-five old manuscripts written in Cyrillic, then four incunabula, and many old liturgical books are kept there.

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Transport Cetinje is connected to Podgorica and Budva through three-lane motorways. Both towns are about 30 km (19 mi) away from Cetinje. Another road to Podgorica is built on the coast of Skadar lake.

There is also a historic old road from Cetinje to Kotor, which is not of premium quality, but offers stunning views of the Bay of Kotor. This is currently, spring 2018, being upgraded.

Previously there was a railway line from Cetinje to Bar along the banks of Lake Skadar, which transported both passengers and cargo. There are no remains of this railway line.

Tivat Airport is 50 km (31 mi) away, and there are regular flights to Belgrade and Zürich, and dozens of charter planes land daily at Tivat airport during the summer season.

Podgorica Airport is 55 km (34 mi) away, and it has regular flights to major European destinations throughout the year.

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Cetinje has a population of over 14,093 people. Cetinje also forms the centre of the wider Cetinje Municipality which has a population of over 16,657 people. It is also a part of the larger Montenegro State.

To set up a UBI Lab for Cetinje see: https://www.ubilabnetwork.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/UBILabNetwork

Cetinje is a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network for Design see: https://en.unesco.org/creative-cities

Twin Towns, Sister Cities Cetinje has links with:

🇲🇰 Bitola, North Macedonia 🇹🇷 Gaziantep, Turkey 🇺🇦 Kharkiv, Ukraine 🇷🇺 Kostroma, Russia 🇨🇾 Larnaca, Cyprus 🇷🇸 Mali Iđoš, Serbia 🇬🇷 Nafplio, Greece 🇧🇦 Novo Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇭🇷 Rijeka, Croatia 🇮🇹 Santa Severina, Italy 🇦🇱 Shkodër, Albania 🇷🇴 Sinaia, Romania 🇭🇷 Split, Croatia 🇮🇹 Spoleto, Italy 🇧🇦 Velika Kladuša, Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇬 Veliko Tǎrnovo, Bulgaria 🇷🇸 Vranje, Serbia 🇬🇷 West Achaea, Greece
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Antipodal to Cetinje is: -161.078,-42.392

Locations Near: Cetinje 18.9219,42.3916

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🇲🇪 Nikšić 18.95,42.767 d: 41.8  

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🇽🇰 Peja 20.283,42.65 d: 115.2  

🇽🇰 Peć 20.283,42.65 d: 115.2  

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