Perast guide: the baroque captains' town in the Bay of Kotor, its palaces, bell tower, boats to Our Lady of the Rocks and where to swim.
Perast is a single street of baroque stone houses along the water at the narrowest point of the Bay of Kotor. In the 18th century it had a hundred sea captains and its own naval academy; today it has fewer than four hundred residents.
There are sixteen palaces and seventeen churches in a town you can walk end to end in ten minutes.
Climb the bell tower of St Nicholas for the view down the bay, visit the Bujović Palace museum, take the boat to Our Lady of the Rocks, and swim from the concrete platforms at the eastern end where the water is deep and clear.
Twelve kilometres from Kotor along the bay road — 20 minutes by car, or the Kotor–Herceg Novi bus, which stops on the main road above the town. Boat tours from Kotor include a Perast stop.
Take a bay boat tour that stops in Perast, or base a slow morning here: tower, island, swim, lunch on the waterfront.
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Yes. It is the most beautiful small town in the bay and the departure point for Our Lady of the Rocks. Half a day is enough.
No — the waterfront is pedestrian. Park at either entrance for a few euros per hour and walk in.
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