The diversity of cultural past of Herceg Novi region, the area of everlasting confluence, collision and interweaving of the two worlds, East and West, mostly presents a specific unity of the opposites resulting from the settling of different civizilations, with each of those leaving its reckognizable stamp in material as well as in spiritual culture.

Constant changes in social and political relations, growth of economic power enterprising and versatile maritime relations with other regions and countries, changes of ethnic structure of the population, among other fators, presented significant impacts on life, and their direct and indirect reflections often affected the culture and art of this soulful city. Founded in 1382 as "Castel Nuovo", its historic and cultural treasure expands throughout the legacy of Ottoman, Spanish, Venetian, Austrian, Russian and French reign.