Mogren Beach
Sand · 350 m · Budva
Photo: Miehs at Romanian Wikipedia · Public domain
- Length
- 350 m
- Type
- Sand
- Water
- Excellent
- Crowds
- High
Mogren is two small sand coves under Spas hill, joined by a short tunnel through the rock, about 500 m west of Budva Old Town. There is no road: you walk a cliff path from the town walls and leave the car in Budva. Together the coves are 350 m long and cover 4,500 m²; they face south, sheltered from the north, east and west winds, and the second cove, beyond the tunnel, is the quieter one. The surface is sand, not pebble. No bathing area here has held the Blue Flag since 2008.
Getting there
From the Old Town the path runs west along the cliff, past Ričardova glava, the pebble beach under the walls, and the Ballerina, the bronze dancer on her rock since 1965. The walk is a few hundred metres and ends at the first cove; the tunnel leads on to the second. There is no vehicle access and no parking at the beach.
Street parking in Budva is in zones. In summer (1 May-30 September) zone I costs €2 per hour for at most 1 hour, zone II €1.50 per hour for at most 3 hours and zone III €1 per hour, charged daily 07:00-24:00. An unpaid stay earns a €50 day ticket, reduced by a third if paid within 8 days.
The beach
Two coves of sand, 350 m in all, framed by the slope of Spas hill, with the tunnel between them. Older listings call Mogren a pebble beach; the shore is sand. The beach faces south and gets the sun from early morning, but the hill takes it away early in the evening, so this is a morning and midday beach rather than a sunset one. The north, east and west winds pass over it.
Blue Flag
Not in 2026. The bathing area "Mogren I" held the flag from 2003 to 2008 and has not been listed since. The nearest flagged beaches are Bečići east of the town and Jaz to the west; the flag always belongs to a bathing area, never to a whole beach.
Above the beach
The Mogren fortress stands on Spas hill above the second cove: an Austrian barracks built in 1860, badly damaged in the 1979 earthquake and never repaired, an open ruin with no ticket, less than 2 km on foot from central Budva along the Adriatic highway. At the other end of the path the Budva Citadel closes the seaward tip of the Old Town walls.
Name
By tradition the beach is named after a Spanish sailor, Mogrini, who survived a shipwreck here and built a chapel of St Anthony in thanks.
Nearby
- Ričardova glava, the pebble beach under the Old Town walls on the way here.
- Slovenska plaža, the long town beach on the other side of the Old Town.
- Bečići, the sand beach east of Budva, and Jaz, further west by road.
- Budva: the Old Town, buses, parking and the rest of the riviera.
Questions
Can you drive to Mogren?
No. It is a footpath from the Old Town; leave the car in Budva.
Is it sand or pebble?
Sand. Listings that call it pebble are out of date.
Does it have a Blue Flag?
Not since 2008.
Which cove is quieter?
The second one, through the tunnel.
Is there afternoon sun?
The sun comes early in the morning and goes early in the evening, behind the hill.
On these trips
- 3 days in Montenegro: Kotor, Lovćen, BudvaDay 3 · Lovćen serpentines, Njeguši, the mausoleum, Cetinje and Budva
- 7 days in Montenegro: coast to Durmitor loopDay 3 · Lovćen serpentines, Njeguši, the mausoleum, Cetinje and Budva
- Day trips from Kotor: 7 trips with drive timesTrip 5 · Budva Old Town, Mogren and Sveti Stefan
- 10 days in Montenegro: the full loop by carDay 3 · Lovćen serpentines, Njeguši, the mausoleum, Cetinje and Budva
Sources
Morsko dobro, The Beaches of Montenegro (brochure), p. 71 · Morsko dobro, beach catalogue: Budva · Tourist Organisation Budva: Mogren · Blue Flag Montenegro, flagged bathing areas by season · Muzeji i galerije Budve: Tvrđava Mogren · Parking servis Budva, street parking zones · Kurir, feature on the Budva Balerina (press, secondary)
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