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Cruise Ships Arrive at Kotor in June 2024. Kotor is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Montenegro due to its well-preserved medieval architecture. [28] In 2019, it welcomed over 250,000 tourists. [29] In June 2021, the first and only public aquarium in Montenegro, Aquarium Boka, was opened in Kotor. [30]
The coast of Montenegro is 294 km (183 mi) long. Unlike its northern neighbour Croatia, Montenegro has no large inhabited islands along the coast. A notable feature of the Montenegrin coast is Bay of Kotor, a fjord-like gulf, which is in fact a submerged river canyon. The Bay of Kotor is surrounded by mountains up to 1,000 m (3,281 ft) high ...
Kotor was home to a notable naval academy, the Scuola Nautica. [18] The fleet peaked at 300 ships in the 18th century, when Boka was a rival to Dubrovnik and Venice. During the Austro-Hungarian period, the Bay of Kotor produced the majority of sea captains of the Österreichischer Lloyd shipping company. [19]
Montenegro Our Lady of the Rocks is one of the two islets off the coast of Perast in the Bay of Kotor , Montenegro (the other being Sveti Đorđe island ). It is an artificial island created by bulwark of rocks and by sinking old and seized ships loaded with rocks. [ 1 ]
Today Risan is a small port with roughly 2000 inhabitants (in 1900: around 5000 inhabitants; of them 80% Orthodox Christians, 20% Catholics) where logs from the vast virgin forests of the Bijela gora are shipped mostly to Italy.
Luštica (Montenegrin: Луштица, pronounced [lûːʃtit͡sa]) is a peninsula on the south Adriatic Sea, located at the entrance of the Bay of Kotor (Serbo-Croatian: Boka kotorska or Boka) in southwestern Montenegro. It effectively separates Tivat Bay from the Adriatic. [1] The peninsula has an area of 47 km 2 and is 13 km long. The ...
Sveti Đorđe in Bay of Kotor (on the left) St. George Island (Sveti Đorđe) Sveti Đorđe Island (Montenegrin: Острво Свети Ђорђе, romanized: Ostrvo Sveti Đorđe, lit. 'Island of Saint George') is one of the two islets off the coast of Perast in the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro (the other being Gospa od Škrpjela).
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