Culture
Montenegro's culture has been shaped by a variety of influences throughout history. The influences of Orthodox South Slavic, Central European, and seafaring Adriatic cultures, notably parts of Italy, have been the most important in recent centuries.

Montenegro has many significant cultural and historical sites, including heritage sites from the pre-Romanesque, Gothic, and Baroque periods. The Montenegrin coastal region is especially well known for its religious monuments.. Montenegro's medieval monasteries contain thousands of square metres of frescos on their walls.

The traditional folk dance of Montenegro is the Oro, a circle dance that involves dancers standing on each other's shoulders in a circle while others are dancing in the middle.
The first literary works written in the region are over 1000 years old and the first Montenegrin book was printed five hundred years ago.

The first state-owned printing press was located in Cetinje in the 1400's, where the first South Slavic book, Oktoih, was printed.

Ancient manuscripts, dating from the thirteenth century, are kept in the Montenegrin monasteries.
Montenegro's capital Podgorica and the former royal capital of Cetinje are the two most important centers of culture and the arts in the country.

Popular culture

The first official international representation of Montenegro as an independent state was in the Miss World 2006.

Both Montenegro and Serbia competed separately in this pageant for the first time after the state union came to an end.

Part of the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royalee is set in Montenegro, although the filming was done in the Czech Republic Nero Wolfe, the eccentric fictional detective created by writer Rex Stoutt, is Montenegrin by birth. One Nero Wolfe novel, The Black Mountain takes place in Tito-era Montenegro.
 
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