Zagrađe monastery viewpoint, Šćepan Polje

Nature Park Piva's lookout inside the Zagrađe monastery complex, 80 m from the car park, over the confluence of the Tara and Piva.

Photo: Милан Смедеревац · CC BY-SA 4.0

The Zagrađe monastery viewpoint stands inside the monastery complex above Šćepan Polje, the border village in Plužine municipality where the Tara and Piva meet to form the Drina. Nature Park Piva lists it among its nine viewpoints and gives the access: about 80 m from the car park along the monastery's west wall, on hiking trail 192. It is the easiest of the park's lookouts to reach.

A broad green river with a stony bank between wooded hills — The riverbank at Šćepan Polje, where the Tara and Piva meetPhoto: Vitalii Lytvynov, CC BY-SA 3.0

What you see

Šćepan Polje below, the confluence of the Tara and Piva where the Drina begins, the ruin of Soko grad and the monastery complex itself.

How to get there

From the car park: about 80 m along the west wall of the monastery, on trail 192.
GPS: 43.345083, 18.853633 (the park's point T-270, published as 43°20.705' N, 18°51.218' E).
By road: Šćepan Polje has the border crossing into Bosnia and Herzegovina, a restaurant and a rafting club near the confluence. From the junction at the border crossing a narrow asphalt road climbs, at up to 9%, towards Crkvine and Rudine.

A narrow steel truss bridge with a worn plank deck in mist — The old steel bridge at the Šćepan Polje border crossingPhoto: Egerváry Gergely, CC BY 3.0

The elevation of the viewpoint is not published.

As a walk

The park recommends the viewpoint as the goal of the circular walk 192E, from Šćepan Polje via Soko grad and Papratište back to Šćepan Polje. Length and time are not given.

Nearby

Šćepan Polje has a rafting club near the confluence; see Tara rafting. Up the road towards Rudine are the park's Soko peak and Maričina greda viewpoints. The Piva canyon viewpoint at Babići and the Piva monastery are further south.