Belane Beach

This guide to Belane Beach in Tivat looks straight across the water at Sveti Marko, the wooded island facing the pebbles. It opens on a summer morning in July nineteen ninety-one, inside a Club Med village of Polynesian-style reed huts, as the season is still under way. From there it follows a Russian oligarch's plans for the island and a Maltese developer now circling it. Best heard sitting at the water's edge near the Kalimanj fishing boats.