Wild Beauty Art

The setting does much of the curatorial work. Macan poljana is exactly what its name promises — an open meadow in the Durmitor highlands — and staging concerts there strips away the usual festival apparatus: the light show is the evening glow on the peaks, and the acoustics are the stillness of the plateau.

True to its multidisciplinary billing, the festival mixes art forms rather than settling on one, using Žabljak's highland setting as a unifying frame. The 2026 season closes on 15 August with a concert by Teodosii Spasov, the celebrated Bulgarian kaval master. For visitors, it offers a rare cultural counterpoint to the hiking, rafting and trail running that otherwise define a Durmitor summer.

Evenings on Durmitor cool quickly even in August, so festivalgoers bring layers and blankets, which only adds to the meadow-concert intimacy. Between events, Žabljak's trails, viewpoints and Black Lake fill the days — the festival is best treated as the cultural thread of a longer mountain stay.

Events are free and centred on Žabljak and its surrounding meadows from early July to mid-August — check locally for the full programme once you are in town.