Overview
Lovćen is a mountain in Montenegro. It is located in the southwestern part of the country and extends to the Adriatic Sea.
The two largest peaks of the mountain are Štirovnik (1749 m) and Jezerski vrh – Lake peak (1657 m).
On the mountain there is the National Park Lovćen.
The most imposing monument of the National Park Lovćen is Njegoš’s mausoleum, built at Lake peak, a place that this bishop, writer, prominent poet and thinker even chose an eternal rest for life.
On Lovćen there are 1158 plant species, of which there are 4 endemic species.
Lovćen is not only a mountain, Lovćen is a holy place that every Montenegrin or their guest experiences as a holy. Something like Olympus is for old Greeks or Mount Ararat for Armenians.
The top of the mountain is a special experience as well as climbing countless stairs to Njegoš’s mausoleum, terrace, sightseeing… The legend says that the Montenegrin king outsmarted the Turkish sultan seeking freedom and independence for Montenegro. Then he explained to the sultan that Montenegro is all the territory that is covered by the view from the top of Lovćen… Sultan, thinking that from the top of that mountain there can’t be viewed a large territory, he made a promise to the Montenegrin king, and only later realized how the king outsmarted him…
Kurt Hasert, the German geographer, wrote: “The whole of Montenegro lay in front of us like on some relief map. Here the sun was played by the moving Boka waves, the surface of Skadar Lake glittered, and the blue Adriatic disappeared on the horizon. In the wild, the Albanian Alps and the coastline of Rumija. The eye wandered through the endless series of chains and valleys, while in the background snow-covered spikes of Durmitor and Komovi sent the last greetings. Podgorica is rising from the green plain. I could hardly get out of a powerful picture. “
