Church of St Elijah

The Church of St Elijah sits on a height above Herceg Novi, reached on foot by a marked path that climbs for roughly twenty minutes from the edge of town. A sma…The Church of St Elijah sits on a height above Herceg Novi, reached on foot by a marked path that climbs for roughly twenty minutes from the edge of town. A small Orthodox chapel stands at the top, the kind of saint's-day shrine that crowns hills across the Montenegrin coast.

The reward for the walk is the outlook: from beside the chapel the ground falls away to a wide view over the rooftops, the bay and the open Adriatic beyond.