Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
BUS
east of the centre. Frequent buses head to Kotor (€6.50), Budva (€4.50), Ulcinj (€3) and
Podgorica (€4.50), and five head to Kolašin daily (€8).
Local buses stop in the centre on Ulica Jovana Tomaševića and head to Stari Bar and
north along the coast as far as Čanj.
CAR
From Bar the fastest route to Podgorica is via a toll road (€2.50 each way) that leaves the
highway past Sutomore, northwest of Bar.
Meridian Rentacar
MAP
( 030-314 000;
www.meridian-rentacar.com
; Jovana Tomaševića 30; 1-day hire
from €45)
has a branch in the centre of town.
TRAIN
minutes, seven daily), Podgorica (€2.40, one hour, nine daily), Kolašin (€5.40, 2½ hours,
four daily), Mojkovac (€6.20, 2¾ hours, three daily), Bijelo Polje (€7.20, 3¼ hours, three
daily) and Belgrade (€21, 11 hours, two daily).
TOP OF CHAPTER
Stari Bar Стари Бар
POP 1870
Impressive Stari Bar, Bar's original settlement, stands on a bluff 4km northeast off the
Ulcinj road. A steep cobbled hill takes you past a cluster of old houses and shops to the
fortified entrance where a short dark passage pops you out into a large expanse of vine-
clad ruins and abandoned streets overgrown with grass and wild flowers.
Findings of pottery and metal suggest that the Illyrians founded the city around 800
BC. In the 10th century the Byzantine town was known as Antivarium as it's opposite the
Italian city of Bari. It passed in and out of Slavic and Byzantine rule until the Venetians
took it in 1443 (note the lion of St Mark in the entryway) and held it until it was taken by
the Ottomans in 1571. Nearly all the 240 buildings now lie in ruins, a result of
Montenegrin shelling when they captured the town in 1878.
