Things to do in Cetinje, Cetinje Municipality: The Best Churches & Cathedrals

The Italian architect Corradini designed a catholic church named after St. Anthony of Padua, which was completed in 1912. The benefactors for the construction of this building were Prince Nikola and his daughter Jelena, which by then had become Helen of Savoy, Queen of Italy.

The church is located in the central part of Ivanova Korita, at a location where the Crnojevic Monastery once stood. It was renewed in the 17th century, but the Monastery was destroyed in a fire, and its single-domed Church of Holy Transfiguration was erected in the late 19th century on its foundations. A large "guvno" (stone circle courtyard), as well as the stone remains of the former monastery's dormitory, are located in its vicinity.

The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, known as the Vlaska Church, was erected in the 15th century and is the oldest religious building mentioned in Cetinje. The architectural form of today's Church dates back to 1864. One of the specifics of this church is a fence around the church courtyard made out of rifles captured in the Montenegrin wars against the Ottoman Empire between 1858 and 1878.

Located near Njegos's birthplace, in the village of Erakovici, this single-domed building was erected in the19th century by Njegos's father, Tomo Markov Petrovic. This religious building has a three-part belfry and a six-sided rosette on its facade, while the iconostasis was made by a Greek artist from Corfu, Nicholas Aspioti.