Nevertheless, it remains a living town, where locals go about their business among the babel of tourists, and laundry criss-crosses the narrow streets. Walk past locals chatting beside their motorbikes and enter the pedestrian Old Town through the Sea Gate beneath its Venetian lion. Once re-caffeinated, walk through pretty St Luke’s Square to Trg od Drva, or Wood Square. Here you can mount the ramparts or, if the heat permits, climb to the fortress for exceptional views over the town and bay. St. George Island near town Perast, Kotor bay Getty ImagesAfter lunch, make your way to the Cathedral of St Tryphon, Kotor’s most important monument and one of the finest Romanesque churches on the Adriatic.