Jezerski vrh, Lovćen

The viewing terrace at the Njegoš mausoleum, 1,657 m, second-highest peak of Lovćen.

1,657 m

Photo: Zlatomir Bacic (Back… · CC BY-SA 3.0

Jezerski vrh is the second-highest peak of Lovćen, at 1,657 m, and the one with the road, the Njegoš mausoleum and the viewing terrace. The highest peak is Štirovnik, 1,749 m. From Cetinje it is about 20 km of road and then 461 steps to the top.

What you see

The national park lists, for clear days, much of Montenegro: Orjen and Rumija on the coastal side, Durmitor and Komovi inland, parts of Albania, Herzegovina and Croatia, and on winter nights the lights of Italy across the Adriatic.

How to get there

By car: from Cetinje about 20 km (the Cetinje tourist office) or 21 km of asphalt (Visit Cetinje) through Lovćen National Park. Park entrance is €3 per person per day and car parking €1 per hour (park price list).
On foot: from the Ivanova korita visitor centre, 4.8 km one way, graded medium, about 2 hours.
The last stretch: 461 steps from the car park to the mausoleum.

Green karst valleys of Lovćen with a rocky summit on the left and a road on the right — Jezerski vrh, with the mausoleum on its summit, above the park roadPhoto: Ingo Mehling, CC BY-SA 4.0

The mausoleum

The mausoleum of Petar II Petrović Njegoš opened in 1974, with sculptures by Ivan Meštrović. Its ticket price and opening hours are not on the park's price list; the monument page has what is published.

Two tall granite female figures in traditional dress flanking a doorway — The two caryatids at the entrance to the mausoleumPhoto: Zlatomir Bacic, CC BY-SA 3.0

Elevation

The national tourism organisation, the national park and Visit Cetinje give Jezerski vrh as 1,657 m. The 1,749 m sometimes quoted for this viewpoint is Štirovnik, the neighbouring peak.

A paved path climbing a rocky ridge to a stone building on the summit — The last paved stretch along the ridge to the summit of Jezerski vrhPhoto: P6G47TG, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nearby

Within the park: the Kuk viewpoint and the old road down to Kotor, the park's bike loops from Ivanova korita, and the hiking trails: Staza vuka 6.8 km, the Kuk loop 14 km, Treštenički vrh-Babina glava 13 km.