Perast

Perast is a small baroque town on the inner shore of the Bay of Kotor, its palaces and churches built during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when the town was a prosperous maritime centre under Venetian rule. Sixteen churches and twelve palaces survive in varying states of preservation within a settlement of just a few hundred residents. Two small islands are visible from the waterfront — Sveti Đorđe with its Benedictine abbey, and Our Lady of the Rocks, an artificial island created by the deliberate sinking of boats and rocks over centuries.