Montenegro

Montenegro packs four kinds of Adriatic into a coastline shorter than a long afternoon's drive. Kotor is a Venetian fortress town at the head of a flooded river canyon; Sveti Stefan is a fifteenth-century island village converted whole into a hotel in 1960; Tivat is a naval yard turned superyacht marina; Budva is the crowded one. The bay does the work that would elsewhere take a province.