No matter whether you enter Boka by land or by sea your experience will be the same, Boka will fascinate you. It looks as if the mountains have cracked and let the sea in. This is the southernmost fjord in Europe. The bay is naturally divided into four smaller parts: Herceg Novi bay, Risan bay, Kotor bay and Tivat bay.

The small towns, as treasuries of history, art and beauty are strung like pearls on its coastline. Painters, poets, scientists, tourists they all experienced Boka Kotorska in a different way. Everybody finds motive or inspiration for himself, experience it as something special and unusual.  It’s status was confirmed by signing Kotor-Risan bay on the list of World’s natural and cultural heritage of UNESCO and accepting the bay in the Club of the most beautiful world bays.

In the 4th century BC the Greeks founded the town of Risan in Boka bay.  The Romans after defeating the Illyrian tribes , settled in the 2nd century AD renaming the coast Dalmatia. By the 5th century, after the Roman empire had divided, the Boka Kotorska remained under western influence while the rest of the land became part of the Byzantium. But by the end of the 6th century the southern Slavs had taken all the territory inland and the Dalmatian coast.

From the early 15th century until 1797 the Republic of Venice was a significant presence in this inner part of the Boka Kotorska bay and left such an indelible mark, the region has always essentially been the domain of its indigenous sea farers acclaimed over the centuries for their mastery of all matters maritime.

Boka Kotorska played an important role in the maritime history of the eastern Adriatic. In addition to Perast and Prčanj, Dobrota peaked economically in the 18th century , having grown into one of the most developed coastal centres of this part of the Adriatic. For generations, particularly in the 18th and 19th century, the members of the distinguished families of Dobrota – Milošević, Ivanović, Kamenarović, Radimiri, Tripković, Marović and others-were the torch-bearers of the economic prosperity of the area, contributing with their capital and heritage to the cultural and artistic development of their native town.

Dobrota is a small town in which exists palaces of former sailors and shipowners. Dobrota has been developing by the town of Kotor sharing it’s destiny until the year 1704, when by the mercy of the Venetians it became an autonomous municipality. As a settlement along 7 km of shore, it was mentioned even in the 12th century. Once it had the largest number of sailing ships for long sailing and thanks to its captains it was one of the richest places in Boka. Their overseas adventures are still testified by a number of places and temples built in Baroque style from 17th to 19th century.

Dobrota is one of those places on the coast where you can still see the former splendour of the bay and the noble town of Kotor. 

Dobrota is located close by the ancient city of Kotor and looks straight on to Mt. Vrmac. The seaside promenade in Dobrota runs for several kilometres along the shore beside numerous little stone jetties and old palaces, which are different and more splendid than anywhere else. As in Perast, Prčanj and other places in the Bay of Kotor, the large number of churches still today witness to the strong faith of the old people of Dobrota.

Dobrota is also place to find very good restaurants and little seafront cafes where you can truly enjoy the old surroundings of the Bay.