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.
Places of Interest
Highlights: 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.
Our Lady of the Rocks
Church
Photo: Bdell555, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Risan and Donji Stoliv.
Perast
- Type: Town with 349 residents
- Description: town in Montenegro
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kotor, Bay of Kotor, Montenegro, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
42.4863° or 42° 29′ 11″ north
Longitude
18.6989° or 18° 41′ 56″ east
Population
349
Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)
Open location code
8FJWFMPX+GG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Venetian—“Perast” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Պերաստ”
- Asturian: “Perast”
- Bosnian: “Perast”
- Bulgarian: “Пераст”
- Catalan: “Perast”
- 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”
- Urdu: “پیراسٹ”
- Uzbek: “Perast”
- Venetian: “Perasto”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Veljinići and Ubalac.
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