Cathedral and King Nikola's Museum

Also in Podgorica a stop to look at the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ. A new Orthodox Christian Church. Then we went around the King Nikola's Museum, a small residential building, originally intended for Princess Darinka, the widow of the previous ruler of Montenegro Danilo I, began in 1863. However, a year after the departure of the Montenegrin Princess from Montenegro (1867), the newly built building became the new residence of Prince Nikola I. After several interventions to upgrade and repair, the architecturally modest two storied building underwent a reconstruction in 1910. Since the Museum's founding in 1926 its permanent display was designed as a reconstruction of the environment of the Montenegrin court with a fragmented representation of the political, military and cultural history of Montenegro.Read more