Monument to the fallen fighters on Stražica

Getting there

Stražica rises directly above the centre of Pljevlja; the monument is about 0.9 km from the main square, a 10-minute walk uphill. By car Pljevlja is 60.4 km and about 1 hour 18 minutes from Žabljak over the Tara bridge at Đurđevića Tara, 68.7 km (about 1 hour 52 minutes) from Bijelo Polje and 161.3 km (about 3 hours 19 minutes) from Podgorica. The times are free-flow driving times.

What to see

• The obelisk, 27 m high, rising from the crypt. The sculptor among its authors, Drago Đurović, also worked on the Partisan Fighter monument on Gorica in Podgorica.
• The crypt beneath it, 5 m high, with the sarcophagus holding the remains of 412 people: the dead of the battle, fighters of the municipality and unknown fighters from across Yugoslavia.
• The authors: the architect Mirko Đukić, the sculptor Drago Đurović and the painters Aleksandar Prijić and Branko Filipović Filo.

History

On 1 December 1941 Partisan units from all parts of Montenegro attacked the Italian garrison in Pljevlja. In the battle 238 Partisans were killed and 270 wounded, and it significantly changed the further course of the People's Liberation War. Twenty years later the town raised the memorial on Stražica, gathering into its crypt the remains of 412 people killed in the battle and in the war across the municipality.

Nearby

• Husein-pasha Mosque in the town centre, with its 42 m minaret.
• The Ćehotina, the river through the town.
• The Tara and the Đurđevića Tara bridge, west of Pljevlja on the Žabljak road.
• Other memorials in Montenegro.

Questions

How tall is the monument on Stražica?

32 m in all: a 27 m obelisk on a 5 m crypt.

Who is buried there?

The crypt's sarcophagus holds the remains of 412 people: the fallen of the Battle of Pljevlja of 1 December 1941, fighters from the municipality and unknown fighters from across Yugoslavia who died here in the war.

How do I get up to it?

On foot from the town centre, about 0.9 km and 10 minutes uphill.