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King Nikola`s Castle / Dvorac Kralja
Nikole
Today it is more
of a museum building which testifies that the Montenegrin state
under the reign of King Nikola I Petrovic, attached great
importance on contemporary social, cultural but also
architectonical trend of the XIX century and the first few decades
of the XX century. “The castle on Topolica” as, because
of where it is located, King Nikola`s castle else is called, was
built by Prince Petar Karadjordjevic, Nikola`s brother-in-law, in
order to buy it from him in the in 1885. The building has also a
small castle, chapels, sentry boxes, and winter gardens. At the
beginning of the year 1919, next to the castle spacious ball saloon
was added onto. The King's castle makes the Mediterranean park,
which is rich with marvelous vegetation extraordinary. Today, the
complex of the castle is used for the cultural necessities of Bar.
The King Nikola`s castle also represents a Homeland museum, and in
the saloons of the castle special literary evenings, musical
concerts, festivals, happenings, art exhibitions are taking
place.
As the castle is
situated next to the seashore, it used to have a wooden floodgate,
which was used for docking in of the ships, because King Nikola
owned 10 yachts. It is interesting to point out, that the famous
yacht “Sibil” King Nikola bought from the novel writer
Jules Verne, and his last Yacht “Rumija, was sank by Austrian
– Hungarian navy in 1915, on the site of the today's
aquatorium . Nearby there is a flower house, of the non-corrosive
construction, which was a gift of the Italian King Emanuel, which
today stands as the representative resort compound better known as
Prince`s garden”.
(Source:
http://www.visit-montenegro.com)
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