Our Lady of the Rocks

Our Lady of the Rocks is one of the two islands located off the coast of the town of Perast in the Bay of Kotor. It is an artificial island created by sinking old ships loaded with rocks. It houses the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Rocks, which is the only building on the island. According to legend, the island was made over the centuries. By the sailors who kept an old oath after finding the icon of the Virgin Mary and Child on a rock in the sea in the same place in 1452, and upon their return from each successful voyage, they placed a rock in the bay, and with the passage of time, the island gradually appeared on the surface of the sea, and it continued The custom of throwing stones into the sea has survived to this day.