Podgorica Historical landmarks

Historical landmarks in Podgorica are split across the river. Stara Varos on the east bank holds the Ottoman-era survivals: the seventeenth-century Sahat Kula clock tower, the Hadzi-Pasina Mosque still in active use, the small Ribnica fortress remains overlooking the river confluence, and the network of narrow stone lanes around Skaline. The 1944 Allied bombing flattened most of the modern centre but largely spared the older quarter, so the early eighteenth-century street pattern survived.

West of the Morača the landmarks shift to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The orthogonal grid of streets between Slobode Avenue and the embassy quarter at Krusevac was laid out under King Nikola after Podgorica passed from Ottoman to Montenegrin control in 1878. The Vladimir Vysotsky statue at the river bend was added in 2004 to mark the Russian poet's 1972 visit. Most landmarks have no entry charge; signage is in Montenegrin and English at the major sites.