PIVA IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Piva is a region in the northwestern part
of Montenegro in the basin of the Piva,
theTara and the Komarnica rivers,
between the mountains of Durmitor,
Maglic, Vlasulja, Golija and Vojnik. It is an
oval (elliptical) valley whose long axis
(about 55 km) has a south-north direction:
Brezna-Šćepan Polje, and the shorter
(about 30 km) west-east: Vlasulja -
Prutaš. It belongs to the karst area. The
areas on the right side of the Komarnica
and the Piva are waterless, while the
villages in its southwestern part towards
Gacko are rich in springs.
The Komarnica, The Piva and The
Vrbnica rivers flow through Piva, and the
Tara is the border river . The Komarnica
comes from Drobnjak, where it springs.
The Piva comes from two strong springs of the Big Eye and the Small Eye not far from the place where the Piva Monastery
was built, below the hamlet of Sinjac. From its spring to Sastavci where it merged with The Komarnica (about 2 km)
it flowed as The Sinjac, and from Sastavci (32.5 km) it runs as The Piva. The Piva at Scepan Polje merges with The Tara and makes The Drina.
The canyons of these rivers are very deep and often carved into the rocky terrain, making them a
natural attraction of the world significance. The Tara is even listed on the UNESCO list of natural
beauties.
Much of the Piva and The Komarnica canyons were flooded by the water of Piva Lake, formed in
1975, after the building of an arch dam (220 m) in the Piva Canyon below the village of Mratinja. There
are also several lakes in the Piva area: Trnovacko, Stabanjska and Skrcko, which tourists love to visit,
as well as rafting on the Tara.
The climate in Piva is continental, in Župa it is much milder than in Planina Pivska. The formation of
the artificial lake significantly changed the appearance, in part, and the climatic characteristics of Piva.
Piva as a parish (district, župa), ie. as a populated area, was mentioned in the 12th century in the
Chronicle of Dukljanin, and in St. Stefan's Chrysovulia (1313-1318) it says: "dahü mou Gücko and
Pivou to make your choice" ... In the 12th century it was mentioned more often. Thus, e.g. in July 1453
Vladislav, a son of Herceg Stjepan, who rebelled against his father, made the peace with him in the
mountains of Piva. Many names and cultural traces from the 15th century also show that Piva had
settlements and had its own population at that time.
According to the folk tradition, Herceg Stjepan had his court in the village of Stabna, where there are
still some ruined walls today, called Ercegova Gradina, and fields called Erceg Scepan's Vineyards;
then the data of this type include: the name of the hamlet of Gornji Unač- Ercegova Strana and next to
it - Sandalovi Doli, and then Soko, above Scepan Polje where the Piva and the Tara merge, "the
town of Erceg Scepan"; then the ruins of the church of Raca, which are below the city, the endowment
of Herceg Scepan, and finally the name of the small settlement Scepan-Polje, on the very meeting
point of Piva and Tara. All this shows that Piva has played a certain role in the state of Herceg
Stjepan.
According to climatic conditions and
traces of viticulture and fruit growing, the
center of life in Piva in the 14th and 15th
centuries were the villages of Stabna
(with the hamlets of Sedlari and Kovači)
and Pluzine (with Magude). The hamlets
of the village of Stabna at that time:
Mutafdžije, Tufegdžije, Suknari and
Brašnari do not exist today. There are
only settlements and a lively folk tradition
that the area was once a craft area in the
state of Herceg Stjepan and that pack
saddles, saddles, various tools, "mutafi",
weapons, cloth and knitwear were made
there, and that the wheat was milled for the needs of Herceg Stjepan so they were named after that.
With the onset of the Turks in the 15th century and with the collapse of the Herceg's state (1482), Piva
population thinned out and lost its character. Due to the instinct for self-preservation, the herdsmen
fled to the free Venetian and Dubrovnik regions, where they had many acquaintances; and farmers
and artisans, who were richer and more prominent, emigrated to free Christian lands either in the
north or in the west.
Poor peasants and small craftsmen stayed in Piva, and they were all gathered and grouped for easy
maintenance in the canyon of the Vrbnica, around the strong villages of Stabna and Pluzine, and in
the canyon of the Komarnica and the Sinjac, around Rudinice and Krusevo. Perhaps a few residents
remained in the village of Mratinje and in Scepan-Polje.
This simple Piva population was very small in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, and it seems that
there is a place of tradition among Pivljani that says that all the Piva population today became of two
brothers, Rudjo and Branilo. It says that a Pasha (in Turkish times) came to Piva and brought with him
two slaves, two brothers, Rudjo and Branilo. A priest "from Polje" repurchased the two young men
from the pasha, baptized them and gave them new names - to Branilo new name Jovan and to Rudjo
- Nikola. As there are two main glories in Piva, St. John (20.01.) And St. Nicholas (19.12.), the citizens
of Piva say: from Rudja-Nikola all are Nicholas, and from Branilo-John all are Jovanštaks. According to
them, from Rudjo are: Gagovići, Glomazići, Pejovići, Krunići and Suknovići; and from Branilo: Kulići,
Tadići, Sočica, Topalovići, Jovovići, Blečići, Mićanovići, Lučići, Bakrači, Gojković, Balandžići and
Bajagici.
There is another version of this tradition, according to which the ancestors of Rudjо and Branilо,
immediately after the Battle of Kosovo, moved away from Kosovo or Metohija to Banjani. After the
Turks had conquered all Serbian lands, a Turk, known as the great tyrant and despot, apostatized
from the Sultan. This Turk asked Branilo to send his sister and some other things to the camp. Branilo
did not do so, but called the Turk on for duel and a little by a fraud (he had sucked a full bag of "alkali"
in his eyes), and a little by his agility killed the Turk. That heroism of Branilo was heard by the Sultan,
and out of gratitude for having executed the imperial renegade he gave him a plenty of land without
paying taxes for it and to choose the land wherever he wanted. Rudjo and Branilo left Mostar to seek
suitable land for themselves. They came to the Nevesinjsko Polje and then Gatacko, and they liked
the land but did not stay there ("One Turk gave, but the other will take the field"), so they continued
through Ravno and came to the Vrbnica valley and settled in Magude, near the village - nowdays
Pluzine. "Here are the hills and the mountains; hot flour from the mill may come to us (there are mills
on the Vrbnica), the timber fall in front of the house and live fish jump right into the pan from the
water, ”they said to each other.
As the brothers celebrated the same glory of St. John, their descendants, in order to be able to come
to glory with one another, divided and the descendants of Rudjo took for the glory and their home
patron St. Nicholas, and the Branilo's descendants remained at St. John's. Hence, today all true Piva
people, wherever they are, celebrate "either St. Nicholas (19.12.) or St. John (20.01.)“.
During the 16th century the Piva population rejuvenated and multiplied with population growth and
migration. Piva remained in the hinterland of the Turks, who passed it and went to the borders of
Dubrovnik, Venice and Hungary. It was calm and the population worked their jobs smoothly and
thrived in agriculture and livestock, because all surrounding countries were deserted. The old crafts
were restored and all goods could be traded, since everything that the people had before had been
destroyed in wars and riots.
After the Kosovo battle and the first attacks of the Turks, a large number of Rashans and people from
Kosovo and Metohija were also leaving their homes: some moving, in less number towards north,
Belgrade and Smederevo, and others in a greater number, towards. the west. Some of those moving
westward came to Piva after a staged detention in Zeta and Dalmatia (Adžići, Lješevići, Gagovići). The
natives were more numerous, wealthier and ethnically stronger than the settlers, and they melted and
imposed their customs and glory on them (Adžići, for example, abandoned their glory to the Great
Lady and took the general, St. John), but the immigrants into the local population brought their
physical strength, mobility and experience, as well.
It seems that the mix of domestic people with settlers
suddenly began to increase the Piva population, and
by the end of the 16th century, one hundred years
after the fall of Herzegovina, we had a population in
Piva that erected a large church and made rich
contributions to the church. „1573 erected a
monastery on the well of the Sinjac Savatije, the
Metropolitan of Herzegovina, and later the Patriarch
of Pec, native from Piva, with the origin of Rudjic. "
14 years later, the monastery was decorated, and in 1626 the priprata was painted in the Piva
monastery by the efforts of Kir-Avramiah Abbot and Duke Pavle Draskovic and the efforts of Duka
Vukovic. In 1673. year the old man Rade and pop Simeun Ducic with sons Ivo and Jovo and Andrija
Radovic with brothers and Leka Majstorovic and Sekul's sons Marko and Bobovac contributed Bare to
the monastery. As early as in 1711 the deacon Vasilije Pivac was mentioned as a copyist in the
monastery. Furthermore, in 1732 knez Milija Krunic, knez Vukoman Petrovic, Vukoman Vuinovic and
knez Jovan Tadic and Vucic Kulic and Petar Kujundzic and Mican Golianin were mentioned as
witnesses in the restoration of the Bare contributions to the Piva Monastery. („knez“ – the authority of
a village in Turk times)
Three deeds have been preserved, on the basis of which the Pivski Monastery is claimed a land called
Bostani in the village of Orah. The deeds are in Turkish: one from the 16th, one from the 18th and one
from the early 19th century. All three are translated, but very rusty. They were translated by someone
who did not speak Serbian well and printed in the Bosnian Villa for the year 1895, on p. 298. These
deeds are considerable in terms of their content, which mentions the places and names of the people,
so much in order to shed light on administrative and political circumstances of the time.
All these quotations are proof that the Piva population has not been extinguished or interrupted
indigenously from the Nemanjic period to the present day. There were opportunities for it to be greatly
reduced, such as in the time of the wars of Herceg Stjepan and his sons with the Turks, but then
multiplied again by the number of immigrants, and already in the 17th and 18th centuries we see entire
processions of Pivljans migrating from Piva and some go to Bosnia towards Glasinac and Srebrnica
and the other to the northwestern part of the Belgrade Pasaluk, to Podrinje.
Used the parts from the section "PIVA AND PIVLJANI" by Svetozar Tomic
Bajagić Đorđe , 9th grade
of Montenegro in the basin of the Piva,
theTara and the Komarnica rivers,
between the mountains of Durmitor,
Maglic, Vlasulja, Golija and Vojnik. It is an
oval (elliptical) valley whose long axis
(about 55 km) has a south-north direction:
Brezna-Šćepan Polje, and the shorter
(about 30 km) west-east: Vlasulja -
Prutaš. It belongs to the karst area. The
areas on the right side of the Komarnica
and the Piva are waterless, while the
villages in its southwestern part towards
Gacko are rich in springs.
The Komarnica, The Piva and The
Vrbnica rivers flow through Piva, and the
Tara is the border river . The Komarnica
comes from Drobnjak, where it springs.
The Piva comes from two strong springs of the Big Eye and the Small Eye not far from the place where the Piva Monastery
was built, below the hamlet of Sinjac. From its spring to Sastavci where it merged with The Komarnica (about 2 km)
it flowed as The Sinjac, and from Sastavci (32.5 km) it runs as The Piva. The Piva at Scepan Polje merges with The Tara and makes The Drina.
The canyons of these rivers are very deep and often carved into the rocky terrain, making them a
natural attraction of the world significance. The Tara is even listed on the UNESCO list of natural
beauties.
Much of the Piva and The Komarnica canyons were flooded by the water of Piva Lake, formed in
1975, after the building of an arch dam (220 m) in the Piva Canyon below the village of Mratinja. There
are also several lakes in the Piva area: Trnovacko, Stabanjska and Skrcko, which tourists love to visit,
as well as rafting on the Tara.
The climate in Piva is continental, in Župa it is much milder than in Planina Pivska. The formation of
the artificial lake significantly changed the appearance, in part, and the climatic characteristics of Piva.
Piva as a parish (district, župa), ie. as a populated area, was mentioned in the 12th century in the
Chronicle of Dukljanin, and in St. Stefan's Chrysovulia (1313-1318) it says: "dahü mou Gücko and
Pivou to make your choice" ... In the 12th century it was mentioned more often. Thus, e.g. in July 1453
Vladislav, a son of Herceg Stjepan, who rebelled against his father, made the peace with him in the
mountains of Piva. Many names and cultural traces from the 15th century also show that Piva had
settlements and had its own population at that time.
According to the folk tradition, Herceg Stjepan had his court in the village of Stabna, where there are
still some ruined walls today, called Ercegova Gradina, and fields called Erceg Scepan's Vineyards;
then the data of this type include: the name of the hamlet of Gornji Unač- Ercegova Strana and next to
it - Sandalovi Doli, and then Soko, above Scepan Polje where the Piva and the Tara merge, "the
town of Erceg Scepan"; then the ruins of the church of Raca, which are below the city, the endowment
of Herceg Scepan, and finally the name of the small settlement Scepan-Polje, on the very meeting
point of Piva and Tara. All this shows that Piva has played a certain role in the state of Herceg
Stjepan.
According to climatic conditions and
traces of viticulture and fruit growing, the
center of life in Piva in the 14th and 15th
centuries were the villages of Stabna
(with the hamlets of Sedlari and Kovači)
and Pluzine (with Magude). The hamlets
of the village of Stabna at that time:
Mutafdžije, Tufegdžije, Suknari and
Brašnari do not exist today. There are
only settlements and a lively folk tradition
that the area was once a craft area in the
state of Herceg Stjepan and that pack
saddles, saddles, various tools, "mutafi",
weapons, cloth and knitwear were made
there, and that the wheat was milled for the needs of Herceg Stjepan so they were named after that.
With the onset of the Turks in the 15th century and with the collapse of the Herceg's state (1482), Piva
population thinned out and lost its character. Due to the instinct for self-preservation, the herdsmen
fled to the free Venetian and Dubrovnik regions, where they had many acquaintances; and farmers
and artisans, who were richer and more prominent, emigrated to free Christian lands either in the
north or in the west.
Poor peasants and small craftsmen stayed in Piva, and they were all gathered and grouped for easy
maintenance in the canyon of the Vrbnica, around the strong villages of Stabna and Pluzine, and in
the canyon of the Komarnica and the Sinjac, around Rudinice and Krusevo. Perhaps a few residents
remained in the village of Mratinje and in Scepan-Polje.
This simple Piva population was very small in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, and it seems that
there is a place of tradition among Pivljani that says that all the Piva population today became of two
brothers, Rudjo and Branilo. It says that a Pasha (in Turkish times) came to Piva and brought with him
two slaves, two brothers, Rudjo and Branilo. A priest "from Polje" repurchased the two young men
from the pasha, baptized them and gave them new names - to Branilo new name Jovan and to Rudjo
- Nikola. As there are two main glories in Piva, St. John (20.01.) And St. Nicholas (19.12.), the citizens
of Piva say: from Rudja-Nikola all are Nicholas, and from Branilo-John all are Jovanštaks. According to
them, from Rudjo are: Gagovići, Glomazići, Pejovići, Krunići and Suknovići; and from Branilo: Kulići,
Tadići, Sočica, Topalovići, Jovovići, Blečići, Mićanovići, Lučići, Bakrači, Gojković, Balandžići and
Bajagici.
There is another version of this tradition, according to which the ancestors of Rudjо and Branilо,
immediately after the Battle of Kosovo, moved away from Kosovo or Metohija to Banjani. After the
Turks had conquered all Serbian lands, a Turk, known as the great tyrant and despot, apostatized
from the Sultan. This Turk asked Branilo to send his sister and some other things to the camp. Branilo
did not do so, but called the Turk on for duel and a little by a fraud (he had sucked a full bag of "alkali"
in his eyes), and a little by his agility killed the Turk. That heroism of Branilo was heard by the Sultan,
and out of gratitude for having executed the imperial renegade he gave him a plenty of land without
paying taxes for it and to choose the land wherever he wanted. Rudjo and Branilo left Mostar to seek
suitable land for themselves. They came to the Nevesinjsko Polje and then Gatacko, and they liked
the land but did not stay there ("One Turk gave, but the other will take the field"), so they continued
through Ravno and came to the Vrbnica valley and settled in Magude, near the village - nowdays
Pluzine. "Here are the hills and the mountains; hot flour from the mill may come to us (there are mills
on the Vrbnica), the timber fall in front of the house and live fish jump right into the pan from the
water, ”they said to each other.
As the brothers celebrated the same glory of St. John, their descendants, in order to be able to come
to glory with one another, divided and the descendants of Rudjo took for the glory and their home
patron St. Nicholas, and the Branilo's descendants remained at St. John's. Hence, today all true Piva
people, wherever they are, celebrate "either St. Nicholas (19.12.) or St. John (20.01.)“.
During the 16th century the Piva population rejuvenated and multiplied with population growth and
migration. Piva remained in the hinterland of the Turks, who passed it and went to the borders of
Dubrovnik, Venice and Hungary. It was calm and the population worked their jobs smoothly and
thrived in agriculture and livestock, because all surrounding countries were deserted. The old crafts
were restored and all goods could be traded, since everything that the people had before had been
destroyed in wars and riots.
After the Kosovo battle and the first attacks of the Turks, a large number of Rashans and people from
Kosovo and Metohija were also leaving their homes: some moving, in less number towards north,
Belgrade and Smederevo, and others in a greater number, towards. the west. Some of those moving
westward came to Piva after a staged detention in Zeta and Dalmatia (Adžići, Lješevići, Gagovići). The
natives were more numerous, wealthier and ethnically stronger than the settlers, and they melted and
imposed their customs and glory on them (Adžići, for example, abandoned their glory to the Great
Lady and took the general, St. John), but the immigrants into the local population brought their
physical strength, mobility and experience, as well.
It seems that the mix of domestic people with settlers
suddenly began to increase the Piva population, and
by the end of the 16th century, one hundred years
after the fall of Herzegovina, we had a population in
Piva that erected a large church and made rich
contributions to the church. „1573 erected a
monastery on the well of the Sinjac Savatije, the
Metropolitan of Herzegovina, and later the Patriarch
of Pec, native from Piva, with the origin of Rudjic. "
14 years later, the monastery was decorated, and in 1626 the priprata was painted in the Piva
monastery by the efforts of Kir-Avramiah Abbot and Duke Pavle Draskovic and the efforts of Duka
Vukovic. In 1673. year the old man Rade and pop Simeun Ducic with sons Ivo and Jovo and Andrija
Radovic with brothers and Leka Majstorovic and Sekul's sons Marko and Bobovac contributed Bare to
the monastery. As early as in 1711 the deacon Vasilije Pivac was mentioned as a copyist in the
monastery. Furthermore, in 1732 knez Milija Krunic, knez Vukoman Petrovic, Vukoman Vuinovic and
knez Jovan Tadic and Vucic Kulic and Petar Kujundzic and Mican Golianin were mentioned as
witnesses in the restoration of the Bare contributions to the Piva Monastery. („knez“ – the authority of
a village in Turk times)
Three deeds have been preserved, on the basis of which the Pivski Monastery is claimed a land called
Bostani in the village of Orah. The deeds are in Turkish: one from the 16th, one from the 18th and one
from the early 19th century. All three are translated, but very rusty. They were translated by someone
who did not speak Serbian well and printed in the Bosnian Villa for the year 1895, on p. 298. These
deeds are considerable in terms of their content, which mentions the places and names of the people,
so much in order to shed light on administrative and political circumstances of the time.
All these quotations are proof that the Piva population has not been extinguished or interrupted
indigenously from the Nemanjic period to the present day. There were opportunities for it to be greatly
reduced, such as in the time of the wars of Herceg Stjepan and his sons with the Turks, but then
multiplied again by the number of immigrants, and already in the 17th and 18th centuries we see entire
processions of Pivljans migrating from Piva and some go to Bosnia towards Glasinac and Srebrnica
and the other to the northwestern part of the Belgrade Pasaluk, to Podrinje.
Used the parts from the section "PIVA AND PIVLJANI" by Svetozar Tomic
Bajagić Đorđe , 9th grade
The Piva Monastery
The Piva Monastery near Pluzine built in the second half of the sixteenth century is one of the most important sacral objects in Montenegro. Its construction lasted for 13 years, just as its relocation took. It is located about 9 kilometers from Pluzine, and on the walls there are more than 1200 m2 of frescoes from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The monastery church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin was built between 1573 and 1586 by the Metropolitan of Herzegovina Savatije Sokolovic, the latter Serbian patriarch with the help of his cousin Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic, who was a great Turkish vizier. It was relocated in 1982 to build the Piva Hydroelectric Power Plant 2 kilometers from its original location. Its 1260 m2 of paintings were removed and restored from the temple walls.
The church is a three-nave building with an overhanging medium nave without a dome. The main part of the temple was painted by Greek anonymous painters between 1604 and 1606. The upper zones of the parish were painted by the priest Strahinja from Budimlje, who painted the Akathist of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the most prominent place . The lower zones are the work of the refined painter John, who until recently was referred to as Kozma, in 1626. The interior is adorned with carvings and gilded iconostasis from 1638. It is characterized by proportionality, lavish engraving with stunningly painted icons of Longin and Kir Kozma. There is a decorative mobilliar in the Church: the Virgin's Wheel, the Episcopal Table, and the door made out of ivory.
The monastery has suffered many times throughout history. It experienced the suffering in 1696 during the Morei War, when it shared the fate of many monasteries and churches in Herzegovina, as well as the Tvrdos Monastery, which was the Episcopal seat then and which was demolished. The Piva Monastery suffered from Ottoman robbery in those years, and Tvrdos from Venetian destruction. The monastery treasury is famous by the wealth of ritual items and manuscripts and printed worship books, and it houses the Psalter of Djuradj Crnojevic from 1495, Omofor of Savatije Sokolović from 1568; The treasury also contains personal items of Baja Pivljanin, a famous Herzegovinian hero, the robber of Venetian and Dubrovnik caravans , the protector of the Orthodox population, who was killed in the battle against the Turks at Vrtijeljka in May 1685, and was buried next to the Vlachs Church in Cetinje. The relics of the Holy King Uros, parts of the relics of Saint Gregory of Armenia, Saint Gregory of the Theologian and Holy Priest Martyr Elefterius, as well as the relics of 11 unknown saints are kept in the Monastery.
The Piva Monastery was once located at the very spring of the Piva River, but due to the construction of the Hydroelectric Power Plant Mratinje, it was moved to Sinjac, which resulted in a unique construction project for the transfer of the monastery together with the original murals. The endeavor was very complex, considering it is a monumental temple, with 1260 m2 of frescoes of exceptional value.
MADŽAREVIĆ DUŠAN, GRADE VII
Bajo Pivljanin
The Duel of Bajo Pivljanin and Ljubović the Bey
Dragojlo Nikolic or better known as Bajo Pivljanin was born in village Rudinice in Piva in 1630 and died on Vrtijeljka on May 7, 1687. He was a famous outlaw (hajduk) and harambash from Piva and is sung in many epic folk songs.
He is a participant in the Kandy War and has also spoken in Boka Kotorska. He is mentioned in Venetian sources in 1669 as a Hajduk chief who had guarded the Boka Kotorska region since the Turks invaded and received an award from the Venetians.
In the middle of 1671, he and 600 hajduks were transported from Risan to Pula. He settled in Zadar in the summer of 1675 and acted as one of the leaders of the Uskoks. He returned to Boka Kotorska in 1684 and started again as a hajduk. The people from Banjani and Piva came to Boka organized in 1685 with the merit of Baja Pivljanin. There is a tower of Baja Pivljanin near Dražin Vrt (Kotor municipality), where, according to tradition, he used to stay and live.
He died at the beginning of May 1685 in the battle of Vrtijeljka near Cetinje. To assist the Montenegrins, the Provincial of Kotor Zeno detached a Hajduk and Bokelj detachment under Bajo's command. Bajo tried to protect Cetinje and Montenegro from Turks, but he was betrayed by Venetians, who ran away. Only he and his brave men stayed to fight but they were too weak, so all of them lost their lives and the Ottomans won . He was buried in front of the Vlach Church in Cetinje.
His struggle and death on Vrtijeljka was sung by Njegoš in Gorski Vijenac (The Mountain Wreath):
Three sirdars brave and two voivodes bold,
with three hundred falcon-heroes of theirs -
falcon Bajo with his thirty dragons -
they all will live as long as time endures.
They lay in wait for Sendjer the Vizier
on the top of Mount Vrtijeljka
and fought till noon on a hot summer day.
No Serb wanted to betray another,
so that people would not blame him later
and point at his descendants as they do
at the traitor house of Brankovics
ĐORĐE BAJAGIĆ, 9th grade
If you ever dreamt about paradise spot on Earth, we will help you find it.
Plužine is a dreamy and peaceful town at the banks of Piva Lake, surrounded with gorgeous mountains and glittering with fresh mountain dews.
In Pluzine there are only 1500 inhabitants which makes it the smallest town, by population, in Montenegro.
Piva Lake offers you a unique opportunity to have a boat ride across the largest drinkable water basin in Europe. You will never forget Stabanjsko, Trnovacko or Sušičko lake, as well.
"The Tear of Europe" runs down Durmitor mountain slopes and offers you an unforgettable rafting experience.
Plužine is a dreamy and peaceful town at the banks of Piva Lake, surrounded with gorgeous mountains and glittering with fresh mountain dews.
In Pluzine there are only 1500 inhabitants which makes it the smallest town, by population, in Montenegro.
Piva Lake offers you a unique opportunity to have a boat ride across the largest drinkable water basin in Europe. You will never forget Stabanjsko, Trnovacko or Sušičko lake, as well.
"The Tear of Europe" runs down Durmitor mountain slopes and offers you an unforgettable rafting experience.