Cetinje Neighborhoods: Bajice and Aerodrom

The older part of Bajice developed as small groups of stone houses at the boundary between cultivated fields and the hillside. House locations followed the steep, rocky terrain, and the groups shared access paths. On steep ground, retaining walls known locally as podzide held the soil in place beside the houses.

A traditional house in Bajice had a vaulted ground-floor room called a konoba and an upper floor. Local stone formed its walls, while a wooden frame supported a roof with two sloping sides. Straw and wooden roof coverings were later replaced with roof tiles.

Later construction introduced larger, detached family houses with yards around them. Some were built alongside roads, while others formed small groups around a shared access street. Both single-story houses and houses with an upper floor and attic were built.

On one roadside plot in Bajice, an old stone house stands beside a lower building with plastered walls. A stone wall separates the plot from the street, while a rocky slope rises behind the house. For the city's wider development, read our guide to Cetinje.

Cetinje's Aerodrom neighborhood combines rows of family houses with separate multistory apartment blocks. Rows of lower family houses were built along Baja Pivljanina Street, with facades facing the street and yards inside the blocks. They included single-story houses and houses with an upper floor and attic.

Some family houses gained extra floors, while separate apartment blocks were built on open land. Buildings with balconies on several floors and large red roofs with windows and steep lower slopes were also built in Aerodrom.

Gipos is a separate group of apartment buildings within Aerodrom. There are footpaths, grassy areas, and trees between its buildings.