About this guide

On a still morning, the two stone arches of Danilo’s Bridge meet their own reflection in the river. A boatman pushes off from the bank. Shutters open along the quay. Rijeka Crnojevića is a small place, but it holds more than five centuries of history. We think that story deserves to be told carefully, and told well.

Who makes this guide

This guide is made by a small, independent and non-commercial editorial team. We are people who love the village and want others to know it too. We sign our work as “the editors of rijeka-crnojevica.me”.

Why this guide exists

Visitors and locals deserve one free, honest guide in both Montenegrin and English. It should bring together the village’s history, sights, nature, events and practical details. If you are new here, start with the history of the village.

This is a new edition of the site, and it fixes earlier mistakes. The old pages said the stone bridge was built during Ivan Crnojević’s reign. It was not. Prince Danilo built it in 1853 (some sources say 1855), in memory of his father Stanko. The old pages also called Obod “the first printing press in the Balkans”. That claims too much. The Oktoih, finished on 4 January 1494, was the first Cyrillic book printed among the South Slavs, and that is what we now say. We have also removed restaurants that are not in the village at all, and put back the letters č, ć, š, ž and đ that the old site left out.

How we work

Every fact has a source. Each page lists its sources at the bottom, with a “Last verified” date. We rely on named sources, such as the national statistics office (MONSTAT), the national park authority, encyclopaedias and Montenegrin news media.

Disputed facts are marked as disputed. When sources disagree, we tell you, like this:

We sell nothing. We take no commission from anyone. In the local directory, every business is listed free of charge and in alphabetical order. There are no ratings, no prices and no featured places.

News is neutral. In projects and news, we report what happened and what each side says, with sources.

Corrections are welcome. If you spot a mistake, please tell us. We will check it, fix it and update the “Last verified” date.

A note on language

The Montenegrin version is written in the Latin script, in the ijekavian form: rijeka, vijek, mjesto. It is a full localisation, not a word-for-word translation, and both versions give the same facts. The English version uses British spelling.

Old photos and postcards

We are collecting photos of the village, old and new. Do you have a postcard of the quay, the steamers or the hotels of the early 1900s? Or a family photo taken on the river? Please share it with us, and we will credit you. You can see what we have so far in the gallery.

Contact

Write to us at info@rijeka-crnojevica.me, or use the contact form.