Perast
Perast is a small city in Montenegro. This is a small quiet town with a population of less than 400 where you can escape Montenegro's busier seaside resorts such as Kotor bay and Budva and enjoy a couple of leisurely hours strolling through the streets, and visit a few museums and churches.Photo: Halavar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Gertjan R., CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Mijail Garrido, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint George and Our Lady of the Rocks.
Saint George
Islet
Sveti Đorđe Island is one of the two islets off the coast of Perast in the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro. Unlike Gospa od Škrpjela, it is a natural island. A small action took place during the Siege of Cattaro on 14 October 1813 when the French-held island was captured by a British and Sicilian naval force.
Our Lady of the Rocks
Church
Photo: Bdell555, Public domain.
Our Lady of the Rocks is one of the two islets off the coast of Perast in the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro. It is an artificial island created by bulwark of rocks and by sinking old and seized ships loaded with rocks.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Risan and Donji Stoliv.
Risan
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Risan is a town in the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro. It traces its origins to the ancient settlement of Rhizon, the oldest settlement in the Bay of Kotor. Lying in the innermost portion of the bay, the settlement was protected from the interior by inaccessible…
Donji Stoliv
Village
Photo: Reshila Vonasah, CC BY 2.0.
Donji Stoliv is a village in the municipality of Kotor, Montenegro. Coat of arms: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stoliv_Flag.png…
Lepetani
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lepetani is a village in the municipality of Tivat, Montenegro. It is located north of Tivat, and just south of the Verige crossing.
Perast
- Type: Town with 349 residents
- Description: town in Montenegro
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kotor, Bay of Kotor, Montenegro, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.4863° or 42° 29′ 11″ northLongitude
18.6989° or 18° 41′ 56″ eastPopulation
349Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)Open location code
8FJWFMPX+GGOpenStreetMap ID
node 48069998OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3193504Wikidata ID
Q998789
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Venetian—“Perast” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Պերաստ”
- Asturian: “Perast”
- Bosnian: “Perast”
- Bulgarian: “Пераст”
- Cebuano: “Perast”
- Chinese: “佩拉斯特”
- Croatian: “Perast”
- Czech: “Perast”
- Dutch: “Perast”
- Estonian: “Perast”
- French: “Perast”
- German: “Perast”
- Greek: “Πέραστ”
- Hebrew: “פראסט”
- Indonesian: “Perast”
- Italian: “Perasto”
- Japanese: “ぺラスト”
- Japanese: “ペラスト”
- Korean: “페라스트”
- Latin: “Perastum”
- Lithuanian: “Perastas”
- Macedonian: “Пераст”
- Malay: “Perast”
- Persian: “پراست”
- Polish: “Perast”
- Portuguese: “Perast”
- Romanian: “Perast”
- Russian: “Пераст”
- Serbian: “Perast”
- Serbian: “Пераст”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Perast”
- Slovenian: “Perast”
- Spanish: “Perast”
- Swedish: “Perast”
- Turkish: “Perast”
- Ukrainian: “Пераст”
- Uzbek: “Perast”
- Venetian: “Perasto”
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