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Pavel Viaznikov
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Perast, a now small town, lies about eleven km from Kotor, beneath the hill of St.Elijah (873 m), on a cape that separates the bay of Risan from the bay of Kotor (two smaller bays within the Boka Kotorska) and overlooks the Verige strait, the narrowest part of Boka. The average yearly temperature in Perasto is 18.3C, and the number of sunny days is 240.
Near Perast there are two small islands: one is called St.George island (it is closed for visitors and there's a Catholic monastery on it, and a small graveyard where many known seamen are buried), and the other called Gospa od Skrpjela (Our Lady of the Rock), and each of them has a picturesque chapel. Gospa od Skrpjela (originally called in venetian "Madonna dello Scarpello") is particularly interesting given that it is the only artificially built island in the Adriatic, with an area of 3,030 sq.m - it was built upon a rock (Skrpjel) after two venetian sailors from Perast found a picture of the Virgin Mary on it in 1452. Each year on 22 November people come here on ornately decorated boats and bring new stones to add to the island. The church keeps votive silver figures donated mostly by seamen. There's a small museum in the church, too.
Venice owned the city between 1420 and 1797. Perast (called Perasto in the venetian language, spoken officially there until the nineteenth century) was part of the Albania Veneta. The city's sixteen Baroque palaces were mostly built in this period, too, as were its seventeen Catholic churches and two Orthodox churches. The old city does not have a defensive wall, but instead it has nine defensive towers, the most important of which is the tower of the Holy Cross. These were built by the navy of the Venetian Republic in the 15th and 16th centuries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perast
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6 December 2004 |
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[ November 27, 2007 ]
