My Ice Cold Mideavel Champaign Treat at Blue Kotor Bay: Winding!

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Kotor Bay must be one of the most beautiful places on Earth. UNESCO agrees, Montenegro owns it and Hyatt soon will have a part of it.

Not yet a Hyatt Hotel Regency yet, but The Blue Kotor Bay Premium Spa Resort will join the American Hotel group next year.

Located in the heart of the Bay of Kotor, a place that can best be described as an oasis of peace, well-being, and relaxation.

“A cold glass of champagne was handed to me by a smiling front desk manager the minute I got out of my AVIS rental car at the Blue Kotor Bay Premium Spa Resort in Kotor, Montenegro.

“It left the stress of the everyday world behind while enjoying one of the most beautiful sceneries in Europe right from my hotel room balcony.”

“I watched two cruise ships sailing into this natural harbor, the UNESCO-protected Kotor Bay region in one of the youngest countries in the world, Montenegro.

In the Middle Ages, this natural harbor on the Adriatic coast in Montenegro was an important artistic and commercial center with its own famous schools of masonry and iconography. A large number of the monuments (including four Romanesque churches and the town walls) were seriously damaged by the 1979 earthquake but the town has been restored, largely with UNESCO’s help.

Kotor scenery

“Imagine you’re located in a dramatic and secluded Mediterranean Bay, at the head of southern Europe’s deepest fjord). This is one of Montenegro’s most picturesque cities. beautiful Bay and medieval town.

The Blue Kotor Bay is the perfect hotel to stay in if you like to be a little outside the busy Kotor town center with some of the most stunning scenic views included.

When going to the indoor pool, and spa at this resort, you walk through a tunnel, and the scene again changes dramatically. I was told they even have a swim-up suite.

The hotel consists of 106 elegant and modern accommodation units, from Standard rooms to Executive Suites, each of them having terraces or balconies with a seating set and table, providing a view over the horizon, sea and mountains, and hidden places of the Bay itself.

Kotor is a fortified town on Montenegro’s Adriatic coast, in a bay near the limestone cliffs of Mt. Lovćen.

Characterized by winding streets and squares, its medieval old town has several Romanesque churches, including Kotor Cathedral. It’s also home to the Maritime Museum, which explores local seafaring history. Sveti Đorđe, one of 2 tiny islands off the ancient town of Perast, features a centuries-old church.

Although Montenegro’s recorded history reaches back to the 9th century, it was only formally recognized as its own nation in 2006, making it one of the world’s newest countries. Kotor, located in a dramatic and secluded Mediterranean Bay (at the head of southern Europe’s deepest fjord), is one of Montenegro’s most picturesque cities.

Kotor has dropped an anchor between the gray mountains and the sea and veiled its life behind the high and wide ramparts. Its bulwarks seem to have been eternally growing rock tendrils along the hill, up to the old fortress that overlooks the town.

It is a dramatic town where the present lives in the maze of medieval churches, cathedrals, Venetian palaces, and pillars.

Kotor is made up of contrasts – the old squares with modern cafes, the sounds of serenade and live music, the echo of the footsteps down the narrow cobblestone alleys, and the lazy purr of cats lying under the balconies with wrought iron railings, decorated with petunias.

In the evening, the walls of Kotor are as bright as the torches from a pagan ritual. When the time for carnivals comes, the streets become crowded, the torches become one with the fireworks, and all of Kotor transforms into one big spark.

Kotor was ruled by Illyrians, Romans, Byzantines, Austro-Hungarians, and Venetians. These conquerors have left many fortunes behind, such as renaissance palaces, baroque towers, and its most monumental testament, the Cathedral of St. Tripun, which is more than three centuries older than the discovery of America. The abundance of cultural and artistic monuments has set Kotor on UNESCO’s list of protected cultural heritage.

Kotor’s fortifications had grown up St John’s Hill from the 9th until the 19th century. There are 1350 steps to the St John’s Fortress at the top for those craving magnificent views over the town and the bay.

There are three gates at the Old Town that lead to the nearby towns scattered around the Bay of Kotor. Kotor also possesses the Fairy Gate – the arching rock above the town. Legend says that only the fairy’s favorites, direct descendants of the old sailors and founders of the town, can see her sitting on the rock and waiting for the golden ship on which she will set sail into the distant world only to return and confirm that Kotor is the most beautiful town in the world.

“Unfortunately I was only able to stay less than 24 hours- but they could be characterized as a perfect day.”

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Juergen T Steinmetz

Juergen Thomas Steinmetz has continuously worked in the travel and tourism industry since he was a teenager in Germany (1977).
He founded eTurboNews in 1999 as the first online newsletter for the global travel tourism industry.

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