Biogradska Gora is, besides Perućica in Bosnia, the only primeval forest in Europe. As a unique corner of untouched primeval nature it has been under state protection for more than a century. Biogradska Gora is a “natural laboratory” of plant and animal life. Scientists have concluded that it contains 25 plant communities and 84 tree species. You can find tree giants that grow there - reaching heights of 60 meters. Some are more than five hundred years old. At the heart of it lies hers most beautiful ornament – Biogradsko jezero (lake).