November 7, 2018 - The Austrian archaeological institute, in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture, conducted a research project of the Austro-Hungarian fortifications in Montenegro.

An expert team of six specialists, coordinated by Lili Zabran, conducted a two-week research of the fortresses Gorazde and Kosmac, which were selected for detailed assessment and preparation of basic documentation. Since further use requires detailed construction surveys, the implemented project has focused on forming documentation and assessing the damage to further planning.

The results of the campaign are the basis for the development of a future project, which, in addition to military research, will include research into documentation and realization of the construction of fortifications, maintenance, and establishing communication and supply in times of war and peacetime. Information will also be collected on soldiers stationed in fortresses, as well as their interaction with the civilian population. The subject of the research will be the use of fortresses during the Second World War as well as during the former Yugoslavia.

Experts from the Center for Archeology and Conservation of Montenegro and the Directorate for the Protection of Cultural Property followed the activities carried out on the terrain by the representatives of the Archaeological Institute of Austria.

The project is implemented on the basis of the Memorandum of Cooperation with the Archaeological Institute of Austria, signed by the Ministry of Culture in June 2018, which envisages cooperation in the field of education and training of professional staff in the field of protection and preservation of cultural goods as well as the joint action in the field of protection of immovable cultural goods.

Support for the realization of this project was provided by the Embassy of Austria in Montenegro, as well as the municipalities of Budva and Kotor.

Text by CdM, on November 6th, 2018, you can read more at CdM

November 7, 2018 - This year, Tivat will celebrate the town’s celebration day on November 21st with the "November Days" event, which, over 23 days, will have as many as 47 different political, social, cultural, entertainment and sports programs.

"November Days " are a tradition and honor for us. We have designed this year's event to be as innovative as possible, with better quality and content, so that all structures of our population will be able to find something for themselves, from the youngest to the oldest," said the Mayor of Tivat Siniša Kusovac.

At the press conference, the program of events was presented which began today and will continue until November 29th. The conference included the Culture and Social Affairs Secretary Dubravka Nikcevic, Secretary of Youth, Sports and Social Affairs Darka Ognjanovic, as well as the representatives of the Center for Culture, Tourism Organizations and Brand New Tivat.

Nikčevič underlined that in addition to the Municipality, Tourism Organization, Center for Culture and Brand New Tivat, a whole range of institutions, organizations, sports clubs and NGOs are involved in the design and launch of the program. As a special novelty, a program called "To the Town for its Birthday" was emphasized, which will be held after the formal session of the local parliament on the Municipal Day on November 21^st, when an interesting entertainment program will be organized at the Magnolia Square, where, with music and food, the representatives of Municipality will talk with the citizens and share material about the role and achieved results of the local government.

Nikcevic also announced the "Open Door Day" at the Military Naval Ship “Jadran”, which will be open for visits to all students from Tivat schools on November 16th.

"November Days" will feature numerous tournaments in chess, basketball, bowling, table tennis, sailing regattas, and athletic races, while the cultural events will include several theatrical performances, art and photographic exhibitions, concerts by the Musical Education Society "Tivat ", that is, the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra, the promotion of books and a special homage to the recently deceased famous actress - the great friend of Tivat, Milena Dravic.

TO Tivat will organize a handicrafts and souvenir fair, in cooperation with the NGO sector, as well as a special new event dedicated to the gastronomic heritage and traditional cuisine of Boka called "Stroll of the Bumblebee".

Apart from the rest of the upcoming festivities, the Tivat Protection and Rescue Service will be officially handed over a special small fire emergency vehicle for narrow streets worth 60,000 euros, and a concert by the High Music School Tivat on November 22^nd will officially announce the new multimedia cultural space that the town received in the space of the reconstructed building DTV "Partizan", in whose reconstruction and equipment the Municipality invested almost half a million euros.

Text by Sinisa Lukovic, on November 6th, 2018, read more at Vijesti

06 November 2018 - The Sea Dance Music Festival in Buljarica has brought a lot of benefits to this particular area, including the recognition on the tourist map of Montenegro, as well as investments in road and communal infrastructure, which has been neglected for years, as noted by President of the Buljarica Local Community, Đorđe Gregović.

By investing in road and communal infrastructure, which had been neglected for many years, and by changing the water supply network, this area has taken on a different appearance.

"I would like to emphasize that one large area has been cleaned and that it is in the benefit of the inhabitants, because it was in a rather neglected state. The biggest benefit is marketing for the future," Gregović said.

A month ago, the Buljarica Local Community submitted an initiative to the Municipality of Budva for a large piece of attractive municipal land which is near the sea to be brought to shape, so it can meet its buyer.

"This is an attractive location and it is suitable for tourist construction. We proposed to the Municipality to find a buyer and to build an investment fund for Buljarica from these funds. This money would be directed to the construction of a road and infrastructure network that is currently modest in Buljarica," Gregović noted.

During the budget preparation, the representatives of this Local Community will insist on new requirements.

"There are a couple of things we need to insist on: it is building at least one of the two key boulevard routes in Buljarica and beginning to solve the sewage system, because there is nothing regulated here right now and we all know how much it is needed especially in the summer days," concluded Gregović.

November 6, 2018 - The Ministry of Defense will invest less than 70,000 euros in overhauling the naval ships in Montenegro.

Almost half of the money - 34,000 euros - will be intended for the repair of motorboats "Bojana" and "Milena", while 10,000 euros will go for the overhaul for the school ship "Jadran".

When it comes to the school boat "Jadran", the tender documents require the overhaul of the boat type "Šljupka".

These works, inter alia, include replacing wooden parts of the boat, replacing parts for lifting the boats, repairing the plastic parts and coloring and painting of the entire boat.

The school ship "Jadran" found itself in the center of the regional public’s attention in August due to the insistence of the Croatian authorities that it belongs to them. Defense Minister Predrag Boskovic said at a ceremony marking the celebration of the 85th anniversary of the ship “Jadran” in August in Tivat that the official Podgorica was open to all its allies in using the boat, but that the sailing boat will remain in Montenegro and sail under its flag. 

"Croatia will take all legitimate steps to get it back under the Croatian flag and Montenegro expects to respect international law and the succession agreement that includes the ship “Jadran"," his Croatian counterpart Damir Krsticevic said at the time. 

The school ship "Jadran" was built in Germany in 1933 on the order of the Navy of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. For most of the overhaul works, a deadline of 90 days is scheduled for the completion, except for motorboats. Such jobs on sailing boats cannot be done at low temperatures and they should be completed by May 1st, it is specified by the tender documentation on the portal for public procurement procedures. 

On the website of the Ministry, it was noted that "Bojana" and "Milena" sailboats type "ELAN 43" were built in Begunje, Slovenia in 1989 and in the same year they entered the operational use of the Military Navy of SFRJ within the school ships unit. Through operational use, within the Navy units, they have been used to train senior personnel primarily in sailing and all other marine and navigational skills. The tender foresees 20,000 euros for pipe repairs and metal works on ships, and 4,000 euros for stator and rotor rewinding services of electric motors on them. Bids are to be submitted by November 26^th.

Text by Milos Rudovic, on November 6th, 2018, read more at Vijesti

05 November 2018 - Issues of political participation, protection and economic empowerment of women, and in particular the issues of combating violence against women the Women's Political Network focuses on, are crucial in building a just and safe society, as a key programme objective of the Government of Montenegro, Deputy Prime Minister Zoran Pažin said at the meeting with representatives of the Women's Political Network.

05 November 2018 - On Wednesday, November 7, at 7 pm, National Museum of Montenegro will open an exhibition by Milijana Istijanović titled "To Live the Best Life" in the DADO Atelier.

This exhibition examines the social and spatial dimensions that deconstruct and examine the relationships between identity, spatiality and the ideas that represent them. Spatial work of a site-specific character makes monumental figural performances on the walls within the exhibition space. The oversized figures prevail in the inner space, creating a visual and textual composition by creating possible/fictitious circumstances and visual representations through their own concepts.

Milijana Istijanović was born in 1982 in Sombor, Serbia. She gained her Master’s degree at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, Montenegro at the Sculpture Department in the class of Professor Pavle Pejović. Istijanović organized seven solo exhibitions. Her work has been shown at international festivals and projects. She is the winner of the annual prize for sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, as well as the first prize at the Herceg Novi Winter Salon.

The audience will have the opportunity to visit the exhibition from November 7 to December 29, and the professional guidance through the exhibition will be organized on November 8 at 11 am.

Read more about National Museum of Montenegro here.

05 November 2018 - On November 1, Hotel CentreVille and The Living Room Lounge Bar in Podgorica were pronounced the winners of the prestigious Haute Grandeur Award at the Palace Hotel Versace in Dubai. Haute Grandeur is a respected, globally trusted Awards initiative, honouring remarkable contributions by outstanding establishments; hotels, lodges, casinos, resorts and private island retreats from across the globe. The special feature of this award and nomination is the fact that the award is given based on the comments that the guests of the establishments provide after their stay.

"The Haute Grandeur Award is a guaranteed golden stamp of excellence, and powerful in its ability to amplify marketing, guest perception and revenue. Participating establishments emphasize the value and importance of continuously striving for excellence, and set the standard in the industry," said the founder and director of the Haute Grandeur Prize, Marinique de Wet.

The nominated facilities this year included Podgorica’s CentreVille Hotel, as well as the Lounge Bar The Living Room, which operates within the hotel.

"The Haute Grandeur Prize celebrates the values of leadership, perseverance, pertinacity, commitment and ambition that Centerville Hotel & Experiences as well as the Living Room Lounge show on daily basis," added de Wet.

Hotel CentreVille has won awards in 4 categories: The Best New Hotel (less than 3 years of business), The Best City Hotel, The Best Design Hotel and The Best Lifestyle Hotel. The Lounge Bar “The Living Room” has also won awards in 4 categories: The Best Cocktail Bar in Montenegro, The Best European Event Restaurant, The Restaurant With The Best Gourmet Cuisine on a Global Level, and The Restaurant That Provides The Most Significant Experience In Montenegro.

"We are very happy to know that our work and effort are recognized by an organization like Haute Grandeur. We are proud to contribute to the high positioning of Montenegro on the world tourist map. The complete team of CentreVille Hotels and Lounge Bar The Living Room raises the quality of tourist offer of Podgorica daily, by improving the standard, service and offer. These awards are just another indicator and recognition that quality offer finds its way to the consumer," said Jelena Ognjenović, general manager of CentreVille Hotel.

One of the greatest successes of the CentreVille hotel is the fact that the hotel was declared the first choice of guests who visited Podgorica on the famous websites Trip Advisor and Booking.com.

"All prizes and nominations are pleasant and flattering. However, at the same time, they represent a great responsibility in order for international recognition to be justified, preserved and improved. We are very pleased with the Haute Grandeur recognition, given the fact that thanks to it we get a new type of brand exposure worldwide. It's not just the brand of our hotel, but also the brand of Montenegro. In order to strive for a general improvement in the development of tourism in the country, it is necessary to promote the individual facilities as much as possible, as well as the destination as a whole," concluded Milo Radonjić, PR and marketing manager of CentreVille.

November 5, 2018 - This year's first mimosas on the Herceg Novi Riviera flourished on Topla.

The yellow sun, known as the mimosa flower, is the trademark of the largest town in Boka and it has been honored for almost half a century every year in February, a tourist propaganda event called the Mimosa Feast. Mimosas bloom from November to March.

The Mimosa is an exotic tree belonging to the acacia branch, which seafarers brought from their distant journeys to Herceg Novi. It is believed that the sailor Mićo Lepetić from Topla was the first to bring it to Herceg Novi from Australia, while in Europe it was mentioned for the first time in France, where it was planted around a castle in Cannes in 1860, from where it spread to other Mediterranean countries. There are about 800 species of this yellow flower, whose native land is in India, Africa, America, Australia and other dry, subtropical and tropical parts of the world.

At the end of the 1980s, there were about 5,000 mimosas in the area of the municipality, from which 30 flower wagons could be picked up. It is estimated that now only 10 percent of the trees are left. In the sixties and seventies of the last century, when the mimosa was massively planted, it was a lucrative job. Of the dozens of yellow flower producers, there are only a few left today. The mimosa tree has a short lifespan of up to 40 years. That is why the local government has launched an action of mimosa planting which is the symbol of the town so that it would not disappear completely and thus question the survival of the Mimosa Feast. In the area of the Herceg Novi municipality, 100 mimosa trees are being planted, of which 60 are allocated to the citizens and their private areas, and 40 will be planted on the municipal parcels. Thirty trees were planted before the commencement of the tourist season.

Text by Slavica Kosic, on November 4th, 2018, read more at Vijesti

November 5, 2018 - Savin Kuk ski resort and its surroundings will not be recognized in the forthcoming winter tourist season, and next summer, surely, the investment story including millions of euros will be completely rounded up. At Zabljak they will no longer look at the sky, but at the artificial snow on the ski paths that will be provided.

A new road was built, so this winter there will be fewer traffic jams at the foot of Savin Kuk. The parking was also asphalted, and most of the works on bringing water from Modro Lake has been completed.

According to the Manager of the ski resort, Milutin Tomic, it is a project that is being realized in cooperation with the Center for International Cooperation and Development from Slovenia.

"This job implied the construction of artificial reservoirs and the construction of a water pipeline from Modro Lake to the foot of Savin Kuk. The accumulation is about 55,000 cubic meters, and the plumbing is more than 6.5 kilometers long. This water will be used for artificial snow, and this month there should be a tender for the first phase for production of the snow at the Savin Kuk ski resort, in the length of 1.5 kilometers, but with the possibility that the system will be extended next year on a path that is yet to be built. We plan to set a larger cross-section of pipes to the middle-station, which means that whenever a six-seater is mounted, the artificial snow can instantly cover all slopes," says Milutin Tomić, adding that now their ski resort offers a total of about five kilometers of trails.

The main contractor for the construction of the six-seater is already known, while at the same time there will be another four kilometers of trails to follow, and with a newly built, 1.5 km long track, skiers will have many more paths available next year, which will be categorized differently.

It is planned that the accumulation will be completed by the end of 2019 but judging by the works done so far, out of which 80% is finished, it will be ready earlier.

"Five-kilometer long water pipes have been set up, the canals are almost completely hollowed out, the manholes built... which means there are still 1.5 kilometers left to end the works. The weather has not been in our favor, there was always rain. The contractors for building a six-seater are already selected, the main design is in the process and the works will start in spring. That means next year on Savin Kuk there will be artificial snow and a six-seater," added Tomic. They plan that water in the summertime when it is unnecessary, will be of benefit to the farmers, but also to dwellers who are not in the livestock business, living in settlements Razvršje, Motički Gaj," he added.

The new access road, which is 1.1-kilometer-long, is pitched and asphalted, as well as parking for a hundred vehicles, but next year it will be significantly expanded. Savin Kuk, commonly, offers two two-seaters, two ski lifts, and a baby lift. All the equipment was thoroughly inspected, and was attested by the Innovation Center of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering from Belgrade on the complete plant and electrical equipment.

Text by Pobjeda, on November 5th, 2018, read more at CdM

04 November 2018 - As a result of the long-term cooperation between the "Pasar" Gallery, the Herceg Novi Comics Festival and the comics shop "Mr No" from Podgorica, the first comics shop in the Bay of Kotor opened in Herceg Novi.

The opening of the comics shop located in the Art Craft Gallery "Pasara", will try to revive the habit of reading comics, as noted from representatives Herceg Novi's Comics Festival.

"This is kind of a logical step in the development of our festival. The recently completed twelfth Herceg Novi Comics Festival has shown that the event has reached the level of European manifestations devoted to ninth art, as well that the best promoter of Montenegro in the world of comics, and also the best promoter of comics culture in our country is this festival in particular. We simply aim to return this form of art to people, return to the place it belongs to, and return comics to the citizens, as well as create a habit of reading comics," said representatives of the Herceg Novi Comics Festival.

Apart from the favorite comics of renowned publishing houses, the comics shop offers aworks by top authors who have toured at the previous festivals, as well as various souvenirs.

"Herceg Novi's comics shop of the gallery "Pasara" will feature all the kiosks from "Veseli Četvrtak" and "Ludens", to the exclusive collection of Belgrade's "Darkwood" and Zagreb's "Fiber", as well as all other renowned publishing houses from region, with a large selection of Japanese manga comics that are released in our region. In addition, the comics shop will also feature works created by top authors visiting our festivals, and there will be all Herceg Novi Comics Festival souvenirs and memorabilia such as t-shirts, posters and calendar for 2019 with the works of our 12 special guests this year," concluded representatives of the Herceg Novi Comics Festival.

They also believe that the comics shop will be a place for the gathering of lovers not only in the ninth art but of creativity in general, given the fact that the gallery "Pasara" was founded by Herceg Novi's artists Boris Šuberić and Vanja Berberović Šuberić.