





Perast is a small Baroque town in the middle of the Bay of Kotor. In the 16th, 17th & 18th century the town reached the peak in the development of its maritime, economic and cultural forces. In those days captains and sailors from Perast where sailing on almost every sea and under a lot of flags, but mostly under the Venetian one. The town itself, along with the two islands in front of it St. George's with the Benedictine monastery from the 9th century and Our Lady of the Rock, bear witnesses to the long gone glory of Perast.

Bay of Kotor, also known as Boka Kotorska, is the largest Adriatic bay between Montenegro and Croatia. The Bay of Kotor is sometimes called Europe's southernmost fjord, but it is not exactly correct: according to the latest studies the bay is, in fact, an inlet formed by a partial submergence of a river valley.Painters, poets, scientists, tourists, they all experienced the Boka Kotorska in a different way. Everybody finds motive or inspiration for oneself, experiences it as something special, unusual, prodigious. And the Boka Kotorska is, which was confirmed by signing the Kotor-Risan bay on the list of World's natural and cultural heritage of Unesco, and accepting the Bay in the Club of the most beautiful world bays......
“When the pearls of nature were sworn, on this soil an overflowing handful was gathered”Lord George Gordon Byron




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