AT A GLANCE
Why go?
The Blažo Jovanović Bridge (Most Blaža Jovanovića) is Podgorica's busiest river crossing, a long concrete span carrying traffic over the Morača near the point where the smaller Ribnica joins it. Set along the city's main axis, Boulevard Saint Peter of Cetinje, it links the centre to the opposite bank and forms one chapter in a story of a city built on six rivers.↗↗
Finished in 1950 and designed by the celebrated engineer-architect Branko Žeželj, the bridge is named after Blažo Jovanović, a Montenegrin revolutionary and national hero. Reconstructed in 1985 and again in 2009, when its railings were renewed and decorative lighting installed, it today reads as both a workaday piece of infrastructure and a mid-century landmark of the rebuilt capital.↗↗
A Bridge Named for a Hero
Podgorica's modern identity was shaped in the years after World War II, and the Blažo Jovanović Bridge is one of its earliest monuments to that era. Built between 1948 and 1950, it honours Blažo Jovanović, a revolutionary who became a national hero in Montenegro. The structure was the work of Branko Žeželj, a Serbian architect and engineer renowned for his concrete and later prefabricated bridge designs, lending the crossing more than just utilitarian pedigree.
