Bar is the main seaport of Montenegro and a touristic centre with many beaches as well. It is a final point of Belgrade-Bar railway line constructed in 1976 and it is connected to Italy by ferry. Bar has a long history and its initial name Antivari/Antibarum/Antibari in different languages means “in front of Bari”. Bari is a city in southern Italy separated from Bar by the Adriatic Sea.
When you arrive in Bar, it is actually the new city of Bar which grew during the XX-XXI centuries. And Old Bar or Stari Bar is a few kilometers away, it was located not near the sea but in a mountain region. There you can see the remains of Old Bar and Old Bar Fortress. Near Old Bar you can find one of Bar’s symbols – a very old olive tree which is supposed to be more than 2,000 years old and it is one of the oldest trees in Europe.
Bar is famous for one more fact. In 1904 Guglielmo Marconi made a radio connection between Bari and Bar and this was very important for future development of radio. There is a memorial board devoted to this event in the centre of Bar.
In 1885 Montenegrin King Nikola built his summer residence in Bar and now you can visit it as museum which includes collections of historic costumers, furniture and weapons. The Palace has also a nice green territory around it.
The centre of Bar includes very long and green embankment and it is a pleasure walking along it even during hot and sunny summer months.
The architecture of Bar is a mix of Yugoslavian buildings of XX century (which can look a little bit fantastic or unusual sometimes) and modern buildings of XXI century.
You can find Orthodox churches (for example, St Jovan Vladimir church in the very centre of Bar), Catholic churches (the Catholic Cathedral of St Peter has an interesting architecture) as well as mosques in Bar.