Sveti Stefan, Santo Stefano di Pastrovicchio is a small promontory, once the haunt of pirates, now an exclusive hotel resort in Montenegro, approximately 6 kilometers south-east of Budva. Sveti Stefan in the past, as well as being a den of pirates was also a small island, which has always retreated 12 historic families of the place. The place fell into decline in the twentieth century, where it was recovered exclusively as a resort by the regime of Tito.
Among the 60s and the 80s, when the internet and googlemap still had not shortened the world, and the iron curtain was separating two worlds together physically far apart, here came to rest on top of the international jet set. Just to say, among the guests who could boast of Sveti Stefan, we find Orson Welles, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti, Ingemar Stenmark and Kirk Douglas. Well, unknown to ordinary mortals it is a retreat for VIPs.
Lapsed during the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, the hotel has been recovered, and today it is a hotel franchise and a 5 star property of the international group of Aman Resorts, at least for the next 30 years. Formerly an island, Sveti Stefan is now connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus, great for planting umbrellas and spread deckchairs, as well as avoiding the “hassle” to embark to the island.
The whole village on the island is like a popular hotel, where you can find the little corner they can do to us (including pockets). In addition to the houses on the island it is part of the resort also in a large villa on the face of this land, Miločer villa was once owned by the family Karađorđević (once the ruling dynasty of Serbia).
Sveti Stefan on map:
By Alba V
Photos: Wikimedia Commons.
