Budva Citadel and City Walls

ABOUT THIS ATTRACTION

The citadel and city walls are the defensive core of Budva’s old town — the fortress at the tip of the walled peninsula and the stone curtain that runs around it to the sea. Where the old town’s lanes and churches are the lived-in heart of the peninsula, the citadel and walls are its military frame, built and rebuilt over centuries to guard a settlement that has been Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Serbian and Venetian. The walls visible today are largely Venetian, raised and repaired through the centuries of Venetian rule and patched by every power that followed, and the citadel at the seaward tip is the strongest point of the circuit, the place from which the coast and the approaches to the peninsula were watched. Walking the walls gives the old town its context: a fortified headland whose stone was laid to keep the sea and raiders out, now the best viewpoint over the modern resort that has grown around it.