A solitary black pine towers above Mamula Island, a 19th-century fortress at the entrance to the Bay of Kotor. It stands sentinel to history, but also to the island’s lavish new incarnation, the beautifully restored and reimagined Mamula Island Hotel.
“An Indian guru who came here last summer and blessed the tree said it holds a lot of spiritual chatter,” Mamula Island Hotel General Manager Henning Schaub says.
The tree, a Montenegro pinus nigra, has inspired design elements in the…

