Bajova Kulapebble · 118 m · water ExcellentAn organised 118-metre shingle beach at Dražin Vrt on the Kotor–Risan road, named for Bajo Pivljanin’s tower above it, with a stone swimming platform and the Boka wall across the water.Bajova Kula or Stoliv?
Two beaches 2.4 km apart, measured the same way. Bajova Kula and Stoliv side by side, on the nine things that decide which one your afternoon should go to.
Bajova Kulapebble · 118 m · water ExcellentAn organised 118-metre shingle beach at Dražin Vrt on the Kotor–Risan road, named for Bajo Pivljanin’s tower above it, with a stone swimming platform and the Boka wall across the water.
Stolivconcrete platforms · 100 m · water ExcellentNo beach at all — concrete platforms and pontoons on the captains’ waterfront of Donji Stoliv, facing Perast across flat water, with the chestnut woods of the upper village behind.The short answer
Choose Bajova Kula for
- shade that is not rented
- loungers, food and somewhere to change
Choose Stoliv for
- nothing built on it
Measure by measure
| Measure | Bajova Kula | Stoliv |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | pebble | concrete platforms |
| Entry | moderate | steep |
| Depth | deepens quickly | deep at the edge |
| Shade | natural | none |
| Character | organised | wild |
| Length | 118 m | 100 m |
| Latest water | Excellent | Excellent |
| Crowd | quiet | quiet |
| Getting there | by road | by road |
Bold marks a measure where the two differ.
Each in our own words
Bajova Kula
Bajova Kula is a shingle beach below the shore road between Orahovac and Perast, at Dražin Vrt beside the 17th-century tower that gives it its name. The board at the entrance calls it an organised public beach of 118 metres with a named manager, and it looks it: fine grey-blue pebbles, a cut-stone swimming platform with deep water straight off it, a buoyed swimming area, and behind the shore a landscaped timber deck with olive trees and festoon lighting. The seed list places it under Kotor’s walls; the map, the monument register and the board all put it here, 11 km up the coast.
Small, and hemmed in. 118 metres of shingle with the M-1 immediately behind it and no pavement on this stretch, and the water is deep almost at once — this is a swimming beach, not a paddling one. The individual facilities are still unverified: the board’s site map marks them but is not legible in our photograph, so we have not claimed showers, cabins or a lifeguard either way.
Stoliv
Stoliv is honest about what it has: the village guide says it "does not have any beaches itself so all sunbathing has to be done on the pontoons", and that is the swim — off concrete, into deep, calm bay water, with the church of the Name of Mary at your back and Perast and its islets straight across the strait. It is the end of the boka-shore-road walk from Kotor and the quietest swimming stop on the Vrmac shore. Bring everything; the waterfront sells nothing.
There is nothing here for a family beach day — no shore to paddle from, no shade, no facilities — and the pontoons you swim from are also where the boats tie up.