The beauty of Montenegro consists of the unrepeatable union of the wild mountains and the sea that has formed many romantic coves and filled them with the finest sand.The sea drew deep into the land and the high mountains embraced it firmly.Thus was formed Boka Kotorska, the deepest and the most beautiful fiord of the Mediterranean Sea.
  The Bay of Boka Kotorska consists of four smaller bays: The Bay of Kotor, The Bay of Risan, The Bay of Tivat and the bay of Topla.The surface of the Bay is not  great (87 km2) but the coastline is jagged and more than 100 km long.The narrowest part of the Bay is straits of Verige  that is around 350 m wide.Here were once stretched chains (verige in Serbian) that prevented the enemy ships from entering the Bay of Boka Kotorska. Todaz, in this area, between Lepetane and Kamenovo, run ferrxboats that shorten the journey trought the bay by 30 km.
   The first known settlement at the end of Bay of Kotor was the Greek town of Akurion. The romans named it Acruvium and the Slavic tribes gave it name of Kotor. The old core of the town was built during the role of  the Roman Emperors Diocletian and Justine, in the period  between the 3rd to the 6th centuries.In the 9th century the storm forced the mariners carrying the relics of Saint Tripun from Frisian to sail into the harbour of  Kotor. The storm raged for days and citizens of Kotor told the sailors: If the Saint does not wish to leave this town, let him be left and forever worshiped here.Let him forever be our and your protector and defender.Before theyear of 1166 the citizen the cathedral and dedicated  it to Saint Tripun. Several years later the town became a part of Raska and received the status of a free town and of the main harbour.
   The Brotherhood of the seafarera of Boka Kotorska, founded as early as the 9th century,  sailed in its swift sailboats to all the large harbours in the world.
   The strong earthquake dwvastated Boka Kotorska in 1667 and anather eartquake came in 1979, wich in Kotor only damaged more than 600 buildings of major curtualsignificance. In the same year UNESCO proclaimed Kotor theuniversal heritage of the world.
   The town is encircled with 20 m high walls that are 2-15 m thick and 4,5 km long.

DOBROTA

   The settlement Dobrota practically linked up Ljuta with Kotor.Here there are numerous baroque captain palaces with wonderful gardens.

ORAHOVAC I DRAŽIN VRT

   Orahovac and Drazin vrt (Draza’s garden) are small settlements of mariners that connect Dobrota and the most attractive settlement in Boka Kotorska-Perast.

PERAST

   The town of Perast lies opposite Verige, like the eternal sentry of the Bay of Boka Kotorska. The defensive power of the town was significantly increased by the fortress of saint Kriz, wich is situated on a hillock above the town. In the town there used to be a private naval scool and shipyard from the14th to 19th century. Even the tsr of Rassia, Petar the Great, sent his cadets to school of captain Marko Martinovic.
   Due to its pronounced baroque architecture the town has beenplased under the protection of the state. In front of  the town there are two islands like two anchored stone ships; Saint Đorđe (juraj) and Gospa od Škrpjela ( the lady of Škrpjeli).
   On Saint Đorđe thereis a church of the same name dating from the 12th century and the Perast graveyard. This is propably why the island is also called the Island of Dead. Gospa od Škrpjela (Škrpjeli= crags) is an artificial island and the old tradition of  ritual covering of crags with rocks and old garges has been preserved to this very day.
   The church was erected in the 17th centery and was painted by Tripo Kokolja. In the churchthere arwe over two thousand testamentary silver plated. Seafarers who had survived storms pr fierce battles used to leave them here.

RISAN

   Risan is the oldest town in Bay. The fortified Illyrian  settlement was mentioned as the 3th century BC. The Romans left perfectly preserved mosaic, the most beautiful among them beingthe large mosaic with God Hypnos in aprone position. From Risan the road leads to Grahovo.

MORINJ

   Morinj is some 5 km away from Perast but it is notnearly as sunny as Perast. In the hills above Boka are Crkvice, the rainiest place in Europe.    The largest part of the water from Crkvice probably flows down the unpredictable karst cracks and emerges in the area between Risan and Morinj. Rumour has it that when the spring Sopot becomes active the level of  theseain the bay increases considerably. In Morinj there unusual springs of fresh water.

The fifteen kilometers of road from Kamenari to Meljine are fiiled with rich vegetation and beautiful beaches.

HERCEG-NOVI  THE  TOWN  OF  FORTRESSES  AND  TOWERS

   From Meljine to Igalo leads one of the most beautiful promenades on the Adriatic Coast. The promenades of Five Danicas (Danica=Venus, morning star) is seven kilometers long. At the very beginning of the walk, above the Military Hospital, in Savina grove there is monastery Savina dating from the 11th century. The monastery complex consists of three places of worship: The Church of Saint Sava, the new and old Churchof the Assumption of the Mother of God.
   The walls of Herceg-Novi descend all the way to the sea. The Bosnian king Tvrtko I built the town at the and of the 14th century and named it Sain Stefan. In the ensuing years the town fell under the rule of the Herceg of Hum, Stjepan Vukcic Kosaca, who fortified the town and gave it the name it bears today.  The Venetians, Spanish, Turks, french and Austrians fought over the town and they all added something to the town or tore something down.
The famous Kanli Tower has been turned into the summer stage and the fort Forte mare and the Spanish Tower are covered with palm trees, eucalyptuses, cypresses, agaves, sensitive plants (Mimosa pudica), magnolias and other exotic plants.
   The central town square, the Square of herceg Stjepan is also called Belavista because of the magnificent view of  the Bay.the square is ornamented with the Church of Saint Archangel Michael, surrounded by four big palm trees. The staircase of king Tvrtko leads down to the Clock Tower. Below Belavista, towards thesea, there is the Square of  Mico pavlovic with the church of Saint Jeronim and the Bell Tower.
   In a small place Igalo the bottom of the sea is covered with sand and healing mud  and at spring of the Sutorina  there are springs of mildly radioactive water.

Prijevor
-on the north-east side from Herceg-Novi there is a little place Prijevor. It dates from 1427 year and it is well known as a town with many churches.

Sutorina
-Sutorina is near the Cratia border on the hill Debeli Brijeg. Sutorina got  the name after         Roman name subtor.

Njivice
- are on the south-west side from Herceg-Novi on the coast of the Bay and this place is well known as a place with many villas and rich people from Montenegro and Serbia, mineral springs and nudist beaches.

Suscepan
-a little village two kilometars from Igalo on the north-west side.

Mojdez
-five kilometars from Herceg-novi on 230 heigh above sea level lies Mojdez founded 1336.

Podi
-two kilometars from Herceg-Novi on 220-320 height above sea level

Meljine
-are founded in 1371 before the town Herrceg-Novi was.

Zelenika (Green)
-place know as place with beautiful vegetatins and that was the reason why it got this name.

Kuti
-founded 1450 year, this is a places with many churches and one of them is the Church of the Mother of God. According to the legend this is the oldest church in this area.

Kumbor
-this place was founded in 1758 year by Venetians and  they gave the name to this place.

Đenovici
-eight kilometars from Herceg-Novi. According to the legend there was a little Venetians place stoli, wich was devastaded in earthquake in the middle of the 17th century.

Baosici
-twelve kilometars from Herceg-Novi. According to the legende they got the name after Balsa Cvetkovic, colonist from Zeta

Bijela
-thirteen kilometars from Herceg-Novi. It is the place of fishers, sailors and vitners.The old traditions in Bijela is also shipbuiling and now there is a well known shipyard and shiprenown establisment.

Lastavica
-The island Lastavica with fortress Mamula is on the entrance of Boka Kotorska bay. The fortress got the name after the general and govneror of Dalmacia Lazar Mamula.

Rose
-a little place, 1851m far-away from Herceg-Novi, lies on peninsula Lustica

Zanjice
-a little place  also on peninsula Lustica is on the Adriatic coast five kilometars from Herceg-Novi.On Zanjice you can see fortresses from a period of Austrians and the beaches 300m long