Perast Private tour from Kotor

In this tour you will be in opportunity to visit Perast baroque town museum set at the foot of St Elijah Hill (873m).The town itself resembles an artistic and carefully planed mosaic put together by dozens of grand stone palaces, churches, houses, squares, stairs, plateaus, fort on the hill and two islands in the sea. After a walk through this fascinating place you can take a short boat trip to the island Our Lady of Rock and pass by the island St George.

One day private tour from Kotor to Perast

Our first stop after a 30 minutes of lovely drive along Boka Bay is Perast , a beautiful and small authentic sailor town located in the heart of Boka bay with numerous historical monuments, medieval palaces, museum and panoramic view to two islands Our lady of Rock and St. George. You will have 1 hour of your free time for visiting palaces, museums and churches and for sightseeing. After Perast you will be in opportunity to take short boat trip to Our Lady of Rock is artificial island according do a legend on 22nd of July 1452, two fishermen, brothers Moršić discovered an image of Virgin Mary there. A tiny Orthodox chapel was built on the site. In 1630 they built a Catholic chapel on the place of original orthodox one. They decided to further expand the island by piling rocks from the mainland and by sinking the old ships. The custom remains to this day. Every 22nd of July at sunset citizens of Perast take their boats and throw rocks into the sea. The custom is known as fašinada.Behind the church there is a small museum dedicated to history of Perast and a gift shop. Across Our Lady of Rocks you can see St George (Sv. Djordje), shadowed by cypress trees was for years under the Kotor jurisdiction. It hosts the Benedictine abbey and old Perast cemetery. This tour will take 30 minutes, afterwards you will sail back to Perast and where your driver will be waiting for you to depart back to Kotor.