In order to preserve the cultural landscape, authentic biodiversity and landscape, either by bringing back the traditional boats or introducing alternative modes of lake transport without the use of fossil fuels in the area of Skadar Lake National Park (Lazarevic, 2016), preconditions would be created for the development of ecological rural tourism which will attract environmentally aware tourists, lovers of tradition and culture, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. [...]this paper points out all the potentials and limitations for the development of rural tourism through the activation of fisheries, as an important traditional branch of agriculture, protection of biodiversity and cultural landscape, and restoration of architectural heritage in order to create necessary preconditions for a comprehensive development of Skadar Lake. MATERIAL AND METHODS An exceptional group of cultural settlements comprises traditional folk architecture, old uninhabited or sparsely populated and neglected fishing villages situated on the Lake shores - Radus, Krnjice, Poseljani, Karuc, Dodosi, and other once inhabited villages where people used to live on fishing and untangle their nets. [...]it must not be allowed for the cultural goods which were previously recognized and placed under protection by the Law to be treated as the settlement of Vranjina which was placed under protection by the Law on 9 January 1979, when its significance was accepted, and which was soon after left to urbanization pressures, uncontrolled development and incompliance (Gakovic, 2013). According to records, the oldest building on the island was the Vranje Monastery, that is the Monastery of St. Nicholas of Vranje built in 1223 by Bishop Hilarion (Radusinovic, 1964). The building itself, using the slope of the terrain and placed directly on the isohypses, is predestinated to be on storeys (on two floors) where, due to the terrain characteristics (Figure 3), the ground floor is much smaller than the first floor which is also the core of the house, the space where people live their lives, despite the limitations imposed by nature, for the purpose of its survival.