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“Niksic was the boiler in which it has been boiling for the last six centuries”, wrote Jovan Cvijic, the famous scientist. You can enjoy a cold glass of internationally recognized “Niksic beer”. This is the location where settlements have been appearing and disappearing for centuries and this can be confirmed by the remains of medieval Onogost, and the fortress known as Bedem. The town was mentioned for the first time as Niksic in a 1355 document from Dubrovnik.

The first plans of modern Niksic, the second largest town in Montenegro, were donated by duke Nikola, who hired the eminent city planner Dr Josip Slade.

Slade followed the example of European towns, and finished the plan of the town in 1883. On the basis of his plan a duke’s palace was built in 1900. It was built in the renaissance style and it is a museum and a gallery today. An orthodox cathedral, designed by the Russian architect Mihail Mihailovich Preobrazenski, dominates the town on the hill. A big stone bridge, with 16 arches over the Zeta river, dates back from that period.  Chroniclers from Niksic especially emphasized the year 1896 when the brewery “Onogost” was built. This was the beginning of the Montenegro brewery’s industrial production. At the end of the XIX and by the beginning of the XX century Niksic was considered a significant cultural and spiritual center of this part of Montenegro.

Today Niksic is an unusually dynamic town that is attractive to tourists. They are welcomed with the well-known hospitality. There are many stories that  swing between myth and legend. They are permeated with humor, frankness, and a readiness of the people to make jokes at their own expense on every occasion.