Sela: Hotels and accommodations

Sela is described as a place with a seasonal rural population: around 25 residents in winter and up to 100 people in summer. Rural life includes livestock work, collecting firewood, and trips to run errands. The wider regional surroundings of Kolašin are described as a cultural landscape of scattered mountain houses, small villages, and higher-altitude katuns.

Landscape

Near Sela, the Svetigora stream ends in a 48-meter-high waterfall. The hiking trail through the Mrtvica Canyon is described as moderately difficult. Near Sela, the road to the Mrtvica Canyon branches off toward the village of Međuriječje.

Culture

Near Sela, visitors can see Morača Monastery. The medieval Orthodox monastery was built in 1252 and contains elaborate frescoes; one of them received an award for the finest fresco in the Byzantine style at an international exhibition in Paris. Near Zeleni vir in the Mrtvica Canyon, there is a stone bridge dating from 1858 near Sela. For centuries, the waters of the Ibrištica served a monastery mill and a fulling mill near Sela. A local tradition connects Sela with memories of the Macura people.

Getting around

Sela is approximately 43 kilometers from Kolašin. In the wider regional surroundings of Kolašin, narrow local roads cross river gorges on wooden or stone bridges. It is stated that the road to Sela is generally cleared during snowfall.

In the wider regional surroundings of Kolašin, cycling routes include the 11.5-kilometer moderately difficult Šljivovica route as well as the more advanced Barutana and Bašanje brdo routes. The routes use fireroads, macadam, and singletrack. Activities in the wider regional surroundings include walks around Lake Biograd, hikes in the Mrtvica Canyon and on Bjelasica, cycling, horseback riding, and trying local foods.

Anyone wishing to book a hotel in Sela can continue their accommodation search afterward. More location pages: Moračko Trebaljevo, Kolašin.

To the higher-level travel overview: Kolašin.