Virpazar

Place in Bar, Montenegro

Virpazar Вирпазар

42°14′06″N 19°05′28″E / 42.23500°N 19.09111°E / 42.23500; 19.09111
Country	Montenegro
Municipality	Bar
Population (2011)
• Total	277
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Virpazar (Serbian Cyrillic: Вирпазар, pronounced [v̞îrpazaːr]) is a village in the municipality of Bar, Montenegro.

Overview

It is located in the Crmnica region, straddling the Crmnica river, which flows into nearby Skadar Lake. There are various tourist facilities including Virpazar hotel, a lakeshore hotel.

There is a station on the Belgrade–Bar railway and a road leaves the main Podgorica to Bar highway and follows the western shore of the lake towards Albania.^[1]^[2]

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, its population was 277.^[3]

Ethnicity in 2011
Ethnicity	Number	Percentage
Montenegrins	175	63.2%
Serbs	77	27.8%
other/undeclared	25	9.0%
Total	277	100%

Gallery

The village seen from the channel leading to Lake Skadar
The bridge in Virpazar
The monument at the end of the bridge
Virpazar, Montenegro - village centre

References

^ Virpazar, Visit Montenegro
^ Virpazar: Mjesto koje vrijedi posjetiti u svako doba godine, i jednostavno uživati
^ "Tabela N1. Stanovništvo prema nacinalnoj odnosno etničkoj pripadnosti po naseljima, Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i stanova u Crnoj Gori 2011. godine" (in Montenegrin). Statistical Office of Montenegro. Retrieved January 27, 2012.