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Kolašin

Kolašin is a town in northern Montenegro.

Kolašin
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The place

Kolašin is a town in northern Montenegro. It has a population of 2,418. Kolašin is the centre of Kolašin Municipality and an unofficial centre of Morača region, named after Morača River. Kolašin is also a centre of winter tourism and pearl of Northern Montenegro. Kolašin is full of hotels and apartments for rent during the skiing season, but last years town is also very crowded during summer because of famous mountains around Bjelasica, Sinjajevina and Komovi, hiking destinations, relaxing ambience, pleasant summer temperatures during the hottest days of the summer and numerous sports events. In 2023, Kolasin hosted the MOSI Games and gathered around 2,000 athletes in the city. Lisnati sir and smočani kačamak is originally from Kolašin. The largest number of tourists come from Israel, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Germany, Slovakia, UK, USA and the Balkan countries.

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See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Botanic garden of the Slovenian biologist Danijel Vincek. In which on a relatively small space he treasures hundreds of various plant species. Plant species, which are dominant in the garden, are characteristic for the areas of Durmitor, Bjelasica, Prokletije, and Sinjajevina.

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Do

Things to do

Winter tourism. Ski centre organizes transport to the ski centre with their own buses. Kolašin has three ski clubs. Today the ski centre on Jezerine is far famous for the quality of its service with a high quality funicular railway and several ski lifts which can take you up to 1950 m above the sea level. There are numerous hotel facilities on Jezerine. Fishing. Nearby the town there are rivers rich with trout.

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Eat

Where to eat

National restaurant Savardak with national food. It's 3 km from city center in direction to 1450 Ski resort. Try special menu and eat Kačamak. Bambi bakery, Vojvode Mine St. (Pink sign on Main Square). Cheap and friendly local bakery, kevapi, burek, pastries.

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Go there

Getting to Kolašin

Airports
Podgorica / Podgorica Golubovci Airbase (TGD), 56 km · Dubrovnik Ruđer Bošković (DBV), 107 km · Priština Adem Jashari (PRN), 127 km
  • Podgorica → Kolašin
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 3m · $4.5–6
  • Dubrovnik → Kolašin
    117 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · €21–29
  • Prishtina → Kolašin
    136 km · quickest by road, 3h 53m · $15–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kolašin

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kolašin. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inTivat Airport () – This airport has regular flights from Belgrade throughout the year, and has charter flights from major European destinations during the summer.
  • Get inThere is a regular ferry line from Bar to Bari in Italy.
  • Get inThere is also ferry service from Bari, Italy, to Dubrovnik in Croatia.
  • Get inFrom there, bus service is available to Montenegro - the Dubrovnik bus station is adjacent to the port where the ferry docks.
  • Get aroundThere are normal buses and minibuses, depending on the destination.

From Wikivoyage: Montenegro, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    164 km
  2. 02
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    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    195 km
  3. 03
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

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  4. 04
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    486 km
  5. 05
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    498 km

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Around it

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