Kotor Old Town Walking Tour
- 1 hour
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
This small group, city walking tour of the Old Town of Kotor gives you a great introduction to this UNESCO World Heritage Site. If you are staying in Kotor for couple of hours only, it is providing a wealth of information in a short period of time. If you are staying several days in Kotor, Perast, Tivat, Herceg Novi or other places around the Boka Bay, it is a good starting point in your exploration of the region. Explore Kotor city with local guides in this small group (maximum 15 persons in a group, we often have 2 guides starting at the same time to enable everybody to participate) and learn about its history, architecture, culture and cuisine.
Inclusions
What's included
- Guiding services
- Map of the Old Town of Kotor
- Kotor city tax
What's not
- Food and drinks
- Entrance fees to the Naval Museum or City Wall
- Transportation
- Hotel pick ups and drop-off
- Gratuities
- Entrance fee to Cathedral of Saint Tryphon
Itinerary
Kotor is situated in the most secluded part of Boka Kotorska (The Bay of Kotor). While it dates from the Illyrian period, Kotor developed into an important commercial and artistic center in the Middle Ages. Many empires battled for control over the city throughout the centuries: from being an autonomous city of the Byzantine Empire, free city of medieval Serbia, then under Venetian or Hungarian states, gaining independence and then returned to Venetian control once again, just to be occupied by France and then Austria, until Kotor finally became part of Yugoslavia. Kotor tour begins at the main gate of the Old Town, also known as the Sea Gate (Morska vrata), where you will meet our guide.
Kotor tour begins at the main gate of the Old Town, also known as the Sea Gate (Morska vrata), where you will meet our guide.
Passing through the Sea Gate the group will spend 5-10 minutes at the Square of Arms, hear the story about the Clock Tower and the Pillar of Shame.
After stop at the Square of Arms, the tour will continue to Beskuca Palace...
The tour leads us to the Pima palace, where we will hear about the life in households of Kotor centuries ago.
The tour leads us to one of the iconic sites of Kotor - St. Tryphon Cathedral with short guided tour of the Cathedral.
Our tour will lead us to The Bokelian Navy Square with Karampana well.
We continue to the Karampana Well...
We arrive at the St Luke Square with St Luke and St Nikola churches.
We arrive at the St Luke Square with St Luke and St Nikola churches.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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4Good length and saw the...
Good length and saw the important sites! Could have used a bit more of a historical overview, but overall a pleasant tour
5Great tour, our guide was...
Great tour, our guide was able to condense hundreds of years of history into an hour. Easy city to get around
5A+ for Jelena
Jelena's tour was efficient and interesting. She has almost no accent and was very easy to understand. She provided us with lots of good info and knows a LOT about Kotor. We would definitely recommend this tour.
5Kotor tour
Amazing, our guide Ana was very knowledgeable, creative and very professional and handle the time perfectly.
5Great guide
Great guide and a great tour. The cost was very reasonable
5Great way to orientate yourself on Kotor
Yelena was a wonderful guide and shared so much interesting history of her home town. We were quite disorientated when we arrived but after her tour we felt right at home in this compact city that packs a historical punch!
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Starting point: Entrance to the Old Town of Kotor Directions: Tour departs from the plateau in front of the MAIN GATE (Sea Gate) of the OLD TOWN of KOTOR. Look for Tourist Info Point and your guide will be holding a sign saying: Old Town of Kotor Walking Tour.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 30 travellers
- Operated by
- Montenegro Adventures DMC
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- This is an easy city walking tour (although the streets are made of cobblestones so the comfortable footwear is advised).
- Child rate applies when sharing with 1 paying adults; children must be accompanied by an adult.
- Minimum numbers (5 pax) apply. There is a possibility of cancellation after confirmation if there are not enough passengers to meet requirements. In the event of this occurring, you will be offered full refund or an alternative (to join a similar tour, the same tour on another date, to pay surcharge for private tour).
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately.
How it compares in Kotor
- Its from-price is 91% below the median of the 42 city tours we list in Kotor.
- It is shorter than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 1 of 42.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Kotor
Kotor is a walled medieval town at the head of a winding bay in Montenegro, with mountain walls, Venetian palaces and a fortress high above.
Kotor lies at the end of the Bay of Kotor, a deep, winding inlet often described as a fjord, though it is really a drowned river canyon, with steep mountains rising directly from the water. The old town, a UNESCO site, is enclosed by Venetian-era walls and entered by the Sea Gate, and inside are small squares, a clock tower and the Romanesque cathedral of St Tryphon, consecrated in 1166.
Top-ranked sights in Kotor: Bay of Kotor, Our Lady of the Rocks (Gospa od Skrpjela), Kotor Old Town.
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