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"Kotor's old-town waterfront fills at dusk for this lantern-lit parade of individually decorated boats competing on the bay, a distinctly Boka maritime tradition accompanied by live music and communal celebration."

Bokeljska noć

"Every summer's end, the small Adriatic fishing town of Petrovac celebrates with free fish and wine on the seafront, folk concerts, and fireworks over its pine-fringed bay."

Petrovačka Noć

"A multi-day celebration of jazz and blues set on the waterfront of one of the Adriatic coast's most intimate small-pebble beach towns, mixing local and international musicians in the warm open air of the early Montenegrin autumn."

Petrovac Jazz Fest

"Held on Herceg Novi's Music Square since 2017, this klapa festival gathers a cappella ensembles from across the Adriatic region for an evening of traditional maritime harmony rooted in the centuries-old singing traditions of Boka Bay and the Dalmatian coast."

Međunarodni Festival Klapa Herceg Novi

"In the tiny highland village where Montenegro's most prized cured ham has been smoked over beechwood for centuries, producers gather each autumn to offer tastings, folk music, and craft markets in an open-air celebration of Njeguški pršut."

Sajam njeguških pršuta

"Around one hundred producers from Pljevlja and the surrounding mountain villages compete and trade at this three-day showcase of Pljevaljski sir, a celebrated semi-hard highland cheese that is Montenegro's most decorated dairy product."

Dani pljevaljskog sira

"The small bayside village of Stoliv, famous for its camellia tradition, turns out each autumn for a free chestnut-harvest feast combining local wine, open-fire roasting and a woodland hike through the terraced hillside above the Bay of Kotor."

Stoliv Kestenjijada

"Held every November since 2006 in the tiny bay-shore village of Stoliv, this fortnight-long chestnut harvest festival sees local households serve grilled fish, freshly pressed olives and every possible chestnut delicacy beneath the century-old chestnut groves that once reached to the sea."

Kostanijada

"Around 70 olive producers fill the lanes of Bar's ancient walled bazaar for a late-November oil-award fair that pairs prize-winning Montenegrin olive oils with live music and local food stalls beneath millennia-old trees."

Sajam Maslina Starog Bara

"Celebrated continuously for over 1,200 years on 3 February, the feast of Kotor's patron saint Saint Tryphon is the town's oldest festival, anchored by the Boka Navy's UNESCO-listed Kolo chain dance, a solemn cathedral mass, and a procession of the saint's relics through the medieval streets."

Dan Svetog Tripuna

"Founded in 1969 by the Tourist Association of Boka Bay, this month-long Riviera festival celebrates the winter-blooming mimosa with carnival processions, masquerade balls, a fish-and-wine feast along the seafront drawing 20,000 guests, and a flower exhibition, all while the hillside town blazes yellow above the bay."

Praznik Mimoze

"Every spring the small bay-shore village of Stoliv celebrates the camellia, brought from Japan in the 19th century by a Boka captain for his wife, with flower exhibitions, a gala Ball of Camellia, art shows, literary readings, and traditional boat events against the backdrop of gardens cascading to the water's edge."

Dani Kamelije

"Each 15 May, Perast re-enacts its 1654 defeat of an Ottoman fleet with Montenegro's most famous long-range shooting contest, in which marksmen fire across 300 metres of bay water at a rooster on a wooden raft, followed by the Boka Navy Kolo dance and a village-wide celebration with wine in the taverns."

Pucanje u Petla

"Every 26 June Kotor celebrates the Boka Navy, the world's oldest continuously active seafarers' organisation (founded 809 CE), with a formal harbour parade, the UNESCO-listed Kolo chain dance in the Square of Arms, and ceremonies in the maritime city's Venetian-era streets."

Dan Bokeljske Mornarice

"Since 1452, the men of Perast have rowed decorated boats out to the man-made island of Our Lady of the Rocks at sunset on 22 July, casting stones into the bay to keep the island growing, in a custom officially inscribed on Montenegro's intangible cultural heritage list."

Fašinada

"Expert-guided foraging excursions into the highlands around Rožaje are paired with an exhibition and workshops celebrating the wild mushrooms and medicinal herbs of the Hajla massif."

Dani gljiva i ljekovitog bilja

"Producers from across the Durmitor highlands bring their handmade cheeses, smoked skorup cream cheese, highland lamb and mountain honey to Žabljak's square for free open-air tastings, keeping alpine pastoral traditions visible and edible."

Durmitorski Sajam Sira i Skorupa

"Environmental and nature films are screened under open skies at Durmitor's Black Lake in the 12th edition of this eco-cinema festival, combining outdoor cinema with the glacial scenery of a UNESCO World Heritage site."

Green Montenegro Film Festival

"Each first August weekend Kotor's medieval Old Town fills with masked parades, costume balls and Venetian-style revelry in a summer counterpart to the famous winter carnival, rooted in the town's centuries of Venetian rule."

Kotor Ljetnji Karneval

"Producers from the Durmitor plateau gather in Žabljak to offer free tastings of highland cheese, skorup cream, slow-roasted lamb and wildflower honey at one of Montenegro's most authentic mountain food gatherings."

Sajam sira, skorupa, jagnjetine i meda Durmitora

"Each year on the Prophet Elijah's feast day, diaspora Montenegrins pour back to the mountain valley of Ali-Pasha's Springs for a homecoming gathering of traditional music, folk customs and communal feasting beneath the Prokletije peaks."

Aliđun na Alijinom Izvoru

"Every 2 August, diaspora Montenegrins return from across the region to their ancestral valley at Ali-Pasha's Springs for a traditional Aliđun homecoming gathering of folk music, dancing and communal feasting."

Aliđun na Alipaša-izvorima