Herceg Novi Municipality is one of the

municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in southwestern

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region. The administrative center is

Herceg Novi Herceg Novi ( cyrl, Херцег Нови, ) is a coastal town in Montenegro located at the Western entrance to the Bay of Kotor and at the foot of Mount Orjen. It is the administrative center of the Herceg Novi Municipality with around 33,000 in ...

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MJU, Vlada Crne Gore

Location and tourism

The Herceg Novi municipality stretches from

Prevlaka Prevlaka () is a small peninsula in southern Croatia, near the border with Montenegro, at the entrance to the Bay of Kotor on the eastern Adriatic coast. Because of its strategic location in the southern Adriatic, in the aftermath of the SFR Yu ...

to the Verige strait. An almost unbroken string of towns lie along this strip of coast, these include Prevlaka,

Igalo Igalo ( cnr, Игало, sr, Игало) is a small town in the Herceg Novi Municipality of Montenegro. It is accessible via the E65/ E80 north headed to Dubrovnik, Croatia. According to the 2003 Census, it has a population of 3,754. The town adj ...

, Baošići, Đenovići, Meljine, Zelenika,

Sutorina Sutorina (, ) is a village and a river located in Herceg Novi Municipality in southwestern Montenegro. The village is located near the border with Croatia, some three kilometers northwest of the Adriatic Sea in Igalo. The surrounding region, incl ...

and Bijela. Municipality is located at

Adriatic coast The Adriatic Sea () is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula. The Adriatic is the northernmost arm of the Mediterranean Sea, extending from the Strait of Otranto (where it connects to the Ionian Sea) to the ...

in southwestern Montenegro, at the entrance to the

Bay of Kotor The Bay of Kotor ( Montenegrin and Serbian: , Italian: ), also known as the Boka, is a winding bay of the Adriatic Sea in southwestern Montenegro and the region of Montenegro concentrated around the bay. It is also the southernmost part of the hi ...

and at the foot of Mount

Orjen Orjen (Serbian Cyrillic: Орјен, ) is a transboundary Dinaric Mediterranean limestone mountain range, located between southernmost Bosnia and Herzegovina and southwestern Montenegro. Its highest peak is Veliki kabao, which stands at . ...

. Herceg Novi is one of the major tourist destinations in Montenegro. It is well known as a

spa A spa is a location where mineral-rich spring water (and sometimes seawater) is used to give medicinal baths. Spa towns or spa resorts (including hot springs resorts) typically offer various health treatments, which are also known as balneoth ...

and health center; nearby

has an abundance of healing sea mud called "igaljsko blato" (Igalo mud) and mineral springs called "igaljske slatine" (Igalo springs). The most famous tourist attractions in Herceg Novi are castle Forte Mare built in 1382, a clock tower built by Austrians in the 19th century, the Kanli tower built by Turks, and the Serbian orthodox church of St. Michael Archangel in central Belavista Square. Whilst the city itself is not a major destination for

sunbathing Sun tanning or tanning is the process whereby skin color is darkened or tanned. It is most often a result of exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from sunlight or from artificial sources, such as a tanning lamp found in indoor tanning beds. ...

, with no long sandy

beach A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles. The particles composing a beach are typically made from rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, etc., or biological sources, such as mollusc shel ...

es along the rest of the Bay of Kotor, many beaches are reachable by

boat A boat is a watercraft of a large range of types and sizes, but generally smaller than a ship, which is distinguished by its larger size, shape, cargo or passenger capacity, or its ability to carry boats. Small boats are typically found on inl ...

. Popular Luštica peninsula beach sites include ''Žanjic'', ''Mirište'' and ''Rose''.

Local Assembly

Demographics

The town of Herceg Novi is the administrative centre of the municipality. The municipality also includes the neighbouring towns of

, Zelenika and Bijela, and has a population of 19,218 (2011 census). The town of Herceg Novi itself has 13,338 inhabitants.

Gallery

File:Herceg Novi Sunset.JPG, Town of

File:Herceg Novi beach.JPG, Beach in Herceg Novi File:Boka Kotorska, delici poloostrov Lustica a v pozadi Orjen (1.jpg, Luštica File:Miriste.jpg, Miriste beach, Luštica File:Savina Montenegro-12.JPG, Savina Monastery File:Kamenari from Sv. Vid.jpg, Town of Kamenari File:Herceg - Novi. The city's waterfront - panoramio.jpg, Town of

File:Herceg Novi main square or "trg".jpg, Herceg Novi Tower

References

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