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Perast, Montenegro
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Things to do in Perast

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Ninety seconds on Perast

A single baroque street facing the narrows of the bay, built on the wealth of sea captains who once sailed for Venice. Stone palaces and bell towers stand shoulder to shoulder along the waterfront, and two islets sit offshore: Saint George, natural and cypress covered, and Our Lady of the Rocks, built up over centuries on a bank of stones dropped by passing sailors. Boats to the islets leave from the quay all day and take minutes. The town is small enough to walk end to end in twenty minutes, which makes it a calm base rather than a busy one, about 13 kilometres from Kotor along the shore road.

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  1. Our Lady of the Rocks

    Our Lady of the Rocks

    Landmark · 30 min

    Go from Perast rather than on a tour out of Kotor. The island takes ten minutes to walk round and the boatmen come back in about thirty, which is the right amount of time.

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  2. Perast Museum

    Perast Museum

    Museum · 30 min

    The balcony over the water gets as much attention as the cases, and this is the one palace in Perast open as a museum rather than as a hotel. Shut every Monday and all through January.

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  3. Saint Nicholas Church

    Saint Nicholas Church

    Church · 30 min

    The church is free and the tower beside it is not, and the tower is shut from the middle of October to the middle of May. In season it opens about ten, later than the church, and children under fifteen are refused.

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  4. St. George's Island Benedictine Monastery

    St. George's Island Benedictine Monastery

    Ruins

    Notable families of Perast and of the whole bay were buried out here under the cypresses, and the Benedictines still hold the place, so it is closed to the public. What there is to see is seen from the water.

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  5. Venetian Palaces

    Venetian Palaces

    Palace · 30 min

    The dated plaques on the walls are the whole exhibit. Sixteen to nineteen of them line one street, depending on what counts as a palace, and the only interior open without a room booked is the town museum.

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Where to Start on the Bay of Kotor
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Where to Start on the Bay of Kotor

A working order for the Bay of Kotor: up the 1,350 steps to San Giovanni before the ships are ashore, or the free Ladder of Kotor instead, then the Blue Line bus up to Perast for the boat that leaves whenever it fills.

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