Skadar lake

If you look at the map, Montenegro, it is striking that most of this already small country is occupied by Skadar Lake or Shkoder. Lake Skadar can be called the heart of Montenegro. It does not extend to the territory of two countries at once – Montenegro and Albania. Most of the lake - about 220 square kilometers - belongs to Montenegro, where it is part of the national park.

Since the beginning of its development by man, the region of Skadar Lake has been a place of mixing of a large number of civilizations and cultures. And now along the shores of the lake you can see numerous monuments of human presence: military fortifications, abandoned fishing villages.

On the small islands scattered along the Montenegrin part of the coast, medieval Orthodox monasteries have been preserved to this day. medieval monasteries - Morachnik, Starcheva Gorica, Beshka, Kom, which were known as scriptoria - workshops, where the census of church books was conducted. military fortifications, abandoned fishing villages. Ancient and younger architectural structures are so harmoniously blended into the surrounding landscape, as if a good designer worked on its creation. What are only small fishing houses with red tiled roofs, attached to the stone folded banks!

Now Skadar Lake is the largest European reserve of marsh birds (more than 260 species), as well as a large ichthy-reserve (more than 45 species of fish), the most valuable of their fish are the Skadar carp, trout and peeling. Some species of plants and animals that live in the lake are endemic, such as the curly pelican and the green frog. In addition to fishing, it is also allowed to hunt the traditional fox, wolf, hare and wild boar for Montenegro and some species of birds.