Cathedral · On the route
Kotor Cathedral
Seat of the Catholic Bishopric of Kotor.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Gérard Janot, CC BY-SA 3.0Kotor serpentine and Lovćen
Up the 25 hairpins of the old road above Kotor to Njeguši, across the Lovćen mountains to Cetinje, down to the coast at Budva and back round to Kotor.
- Distance
- 55 miles (89 km)
- Type
- Loop
- Where
- Bay of Kotor
Plotted by us, not yet ridden
Click a dot for details. White dots are the stops, each with a bed search. Yellow dots are places to see.
From the map
- Longest gap between fuel
- 24 miles
- Fuel stations near the line
- 14
- Curvature
- 249 ° a mile
- Campsites within 2 km
- 13
- The longest stretch with no fuel station within 1 km of the line runs from mile 0 to mile 24. Check it against your range with the fuel range calculator.
- The twistiest 20 miles run from mile 0 to mile 20, at 303 degrees of turning a mile.
Measured on the route line from OpenStreetMap data, which can be missing or out of date. Curvature is degrees of turning a mile, measured every 100 metres. On our routes they run from 6 on the E19 to 701 on the SP638.
Before you go
- Montenegro is not in the EU. Read the FCDO travel advice for entry and driving rules before you go.
- The serpentine is single track in places with coaches coming down. Use the passing places.
On the way
- Kotor
- Kotor serpentine
- Njeguši
- Cetinje
- Budva
- Kotor
Ready to ride it?
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1Getting there
Most riders cross to Calais by Le Shuttle or a Dover ferry, or take a longer ferry nearer the route.
Compare every crossing3Cover
Check your bike insurance covers riding abroad, get travel insurance that covers motorcycling at your engine size, and breakdown cover that recovers a motorcycle in every country on the route.
What to check before you buy coverThe country on this route
What GOV.UK says riders need for it, checked 05/11/2026. Rules change, so read the official page before you go.
Montenegro
- Money
- Euro
- Ride on the
- Right
- The drink-drive limit is less than half the limit in England and Wales
- Fines may have to be paid within 8 days or before you leave the country
- GOV.UK travel adviceSafety, road travel and local laws
- Entry requirementsPassport and visa rules
On every trip abroad: your licence, insurance that covers riding abroad, the V5C and travel insurance with medical cover. The tour planner turns all of this into a checklist each rider in your group can tick off.
Places to see on the way
Castles, passes, viewpoints and more within easy reach of the line, in the order you reach them. Yellow dots on the map.
Fort · On the route
Fortifications of Kotor
UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Asta, Public domain
Pass · On the route
Čekanje
Saddle in Montenegro.
Monastery · 0.3 km off the route
Cetinje Monastery
Monastery.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Koroner, CC BY-SA 3.0
Pass · On the route
Seoštik
Saddle in Montenegro.
Monastery · On the route
Podmaine Monastery
Serbian Orthodox monastery near Budva, Montenegro.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Островский Александр, Киев, CC BY-SA 3.0
Monastery · On the route
Podlastva Monastery
Church in Lastva Grbaljska, Montenegro.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Фото, CC BY-SA 4.0
Place details from Wikidata. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.
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