Approximately 30 minutes from Kotor you will find the ancient town of Perast, which is the starting point for your visit to Our Lady of the Rocks, an ancient church built on a man-made island in the Bay of Boka Kotorska. According to local legend, two brothers found an image of the Virgin Mary on a pile of rocks in the harbor in 1452 and built a small Orthodox chapel on the spot. Much later in 1630 Venetian occupiers expanded the island by bringing in more rocks and sinking ships – they also built a larger Catholic chapel on the site of the original building. The church you can visit today dates back to 1722 and contains a lovely 15th century icon of the Virgin by Lovro Dobricevic, known as Our Lady of the Rocks.

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