The Venetian Republic: The Bay of Kotor
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
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The ninth in our series on the Venetian Republic, getting into Montenegro and exploring the bay of Kotor from Herceg Novi to Kotor with Perast along the way
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Fascinating detail, though I cannot understand why anyone would build an artificial island out of sunken rock-filled ships just to build a church on it?!
Glorious views of the fortifications and the Bay.
esp since the island of St George is close enough to play a few rounds of badminton between them! 😆
Citizens of Perast: "you know what this view could use? an island with a church on it"
St George island: "ummm... HELLO? ? ?" 🏝⛪
Montenegro is definitely under visited! Just stunning.
Awesome nature around that bay - love the tiny chapel and the huge fortress!
Love the smug lion!!
I think i need to get a substantial win on the lottery, hire a luxury yacht and crew, and spend spring to autumn cruising the Adriatic looking at all these wonderful places you've shown us. This is another great video
This amazing and fantastic detail on a part of history I've only just heard about in wider reading!
thks!
well, thats a lot to take in
just try researching & writing it! 😅
mmmm, i don't know - that island looks pretty real 🤔
The second last queen of Italy queen Elena wife of king Victor Emmanuel III was the daughter of king Nicholas of Montenegro - Nicholas was the first and only king of Montenegro -all the others were merely prince-bishops.Note that the word "Montenegro" is Venetian and not Italian - if it were Italian it would be Montenero.
You really know your stuff! Great info - I'm curious: are you a keen amateur historian, or know it professionally; ie maybe at university, as a diplomat, or for writing a book about the area?
@@Neilhuny Amateur historian with a substantial dose of Asperger's syndrome which means the things I am very interested in I remember very vividly. Actually I am Australian but born in the Veneto region of Italy - the heartland of the Venetian republic though for countless centuries Venice was the bogeyman -the inland areas were once independent cities etc who fought Venetian encroachments and aggressions but fell one by one!They were colonizers. I was born in the shadow of a castle where the last queen of Cyprus held her court in the late 15th century -Caterina Cornaro -she was pensioned off here when the Venetians took over Cyprus.(But the Venetians were there not very long as the Ottomans soon arrived
@@kaloarepo288 Well, I for one am delighted by your Aspergers! My apologies if that doesn't tally with your opinion, but info like this is great!
@@Neilhuny We do a lot of associative thinking when bits of information we have gleaned over the years some together - I give you an example - you mentioned a tower called Bembo when you were describing the Venetian fortifications in one of the towns on the Gulf of Kotor. Well cardinal Bembo was a prominent 15th century Venetian Renaissance scholar, poet and humanist who was actually patronized by the aforementioned last queen of Cyprus Caterina Cornaro in her Venetian mainland castle at Asolo. And if you want to check it out a form of printing is actually named after him Font Bembo. In all likelihood the turret has connections with the humanist/cardinal or his family.