Stari Bar fortress

This will be the southernmost point of the trip for Rhonda. It was a really great choice, we have fantastic lodging with a direct view of the fortress which we visit today on foot. We're staying out of the saddle.

Stari Bar (old Bar), is one of those historic Mediterranean sites that was settled well before the Greeks and even the Phoenicians. Trade, religion, wars, life all occurred here in abundance until 1979 when the site was finally abandoned after a devastating earthquake. Economic decline and a lightening strike on a munitions depot in a repurposed mosque in 1912 predetermined that fate.

There are few tourists here, it's a splendid day and we explore the site.

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