MONTENEGRO
The full Montenegro
RUPERT BATES reports on a marina resort with a difference.
Porto Montenegro demands the best of everything, while creating a sustainable legacy for this little country in the former Yugoslavia.
Estate agents will tell you house buying has little to do with price and all to do with schools, with parents willing to add another zero to their budget just so the little darlings can get a proper education. In that case move to Montenegro and the Kotor catchment area. Porto Montenegro is a luxury marina village and port on
the southern tip of the Dalmatian coast, where the wealthy moor their yachts in the Bay of Kotor - the deepest natural harbour in Southern Europe and a UNESCO World Heritage site. This is a yacht first, waterfront apartment second sort of
purchase, but to the top-end lifestyle mix schooling has been added, with Porto Montenegro partnering with
20. Homes Overseas
Knightsbridge Schools International to open a school for residents, modelled on the London school. It opens this month for three to eight-year olds and the curriculum is based on the International Baccalaureate, with bi-lingual English-Montenegrin instruction. Porto Montenegro is a 600-berth marina on an old
Austro-Hungarian naval base in the town of Tivat. Montenegro, in the former Yugoslavia, has a population of around 700,000 people, 180 miles of coastline and 40 lakes, including Sveti Stefan, an island on the Budva Riviera, once a fishing village, now a smart hotel and tourist destination and a social beacon down the years for celebrities, including Sophia Loren. The land back from the Montenegrin waters rises steeply
to soaring limestone mountains, which cover 70 per cent of the country. Summer temperatures on the coast average 25C, with winter snow and skiing in the north. About five years ago Montenegro, which only won
independence from Serbia in 2006, swept past its larger neighbour Croatia as the next big, or little, thing in residential investment, despite little being known about its
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