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Montenegro

Lord Byron once called this coast “the most beautiful encounter between land and sea”. Now Montenegro has made it on to the luxury-travel map. This Balkan country, part of the former Yugoslavia, with a population of only 628,000, has been under the radar for far too long. But all eyes are on its Adriatic shoreline, where, in Portonovi, the One & Only group has opened its first European hotel.

It joins the country’s rapidly expanding roster of high-end venues, which began with Aman Sveti Stefan in 2011. Since then, the Regent Porto Montenegro and the Chedi Lustica Bay have followed, with a Ritz-Carlton promised for 2024. But Portonovi is where the buzz is this year — and even though Montenegro is on the UK’s amber

Spotted in The Times

Glamorous Montenegro travel