ARCHITECTURE

The construction of traditional architecture, which is increasingly disappearing, has an essential place in the cultural heritage of the Durmitor region. Folk architecture is characterized by country houses built in stone or logs with stone walls, with steep roofs covered with rye straw, shingles, clapboards, or planks.

These are houses on the ground floor, actual towers and log cabins..

In winter habitats and katuns – summer shepherds’ houses in the mountains, are used summer pasture settlement which has many names in montenigrian – barns, huts, savardak, yatars, cottages, corrals and torines are used.

Numerous katuns were mainly formed above villages in the valleys of the mountain massif (Sljivansko, Borev do, Kaluđerski katun, Dobri do, Ališnica, Veliki and Mali Štuoc, Lokvice, Orin katun, Šibalića katun, Pašina voda, etc.)

THE COTTAGE
THE HOUSE OF BADNJARA
BOŽOVIĆ TOWER
PODGORA SCHOOL (dates from 1919)
ĆOSOVIĆ TOWER
A HOUSE COVERED WITH SHINGLES

Watermills and fulling (stupas) were used on the river. Watermills were built like log cabins, and there were also stone-built ones. They existed on Mlinsko potok, Sušica, Tepačko stream, Ograđenica, Bukovica, Komarnica. Since the Durmitor region was highly famous for cultivating cereals (rye, oats, barley), flour of exceptional quality was obtained from these mills.