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14201420–1797 · Kotor

Kotor under Venice

Kotor's Venetian-era walls and a round bastion reflected in the water below steep limestone mountains
Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Kotor placed itself under the Republic of Venice in 1420 and stayed Venetian, with brief interruptions, until the republic fell in 1797. Venice ringed the town and the mountainside above it with walls that climb to the fort of St John, a frontier against the Ottomans who held the hinterland and besieged Kotor in 1539 and 1657. Sea captains' palaces in Kotor and Perast date from these centuries.

Sites

  1. Site 1: Kotor old town walls and St John's FortressWalls zig-zagging 1,350 steps up the mountain above the walled town.Map ↗
  2. Site 2: Perast and Our Lady of the RocksCaptains' palaces and an island church reached by boat.Map ↗

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