Grgurevina

A residential complex known as Grgurevina is situated southeast of the access to the Prevlaka peninsula, at the edge of a cove dominated by a harmonious silhouette of the Dančulovina complex. According to sources the complex was built on the remains of the Church of the Holy Saviour. First it was owned by “Counts Ivanović” and then by the Marinović and Maričević families. Today it is owned by the Kovačević and Ivošević families. The first constructed building was a square-shaped, three-storey tower, which was, in the next phase of construction, adjoined by a two-storey residential building of the same width. The first floor of the building was reached by an outer stairway. In the third phase, when the complex acquired its final form, a new two-storey residential building was added to the northeast side of the existing building. This new building incorporated the outer stairway of the older building. The complex was built in the typical style of the fortified residential complexes that were built by wealthy families in the Tivat Bay area.

Like the tower in Dančulovina, the tower of the Grgurevina complex might have been part of the defensive system of St. Michael’s monastery in Prevlaka. This supposition is made due to its location in the immediate vicinity of the entrance to the monastery complex and by its old age.