Stoliv

Stoliv is one of the bay's most secluded corners, a small village folded into the slopes beneath the Vrmac ridge on the western shore, looking across the water towards Perast. Its name is said to derive from the words for "one hundred olives", recalling an old local custom by which a young man hoping to marry was expected to plant a hundred olive trees. The village is duly wrapped in ancient olive groves, some trees reputedly over a thousand years old, threaded with Mediterranean greenery, camellias and chestnut woods.