Prima Casa

Prima Casa is a stone-and-wood cottage in Kotor, on Montenegro's coast, set above the shoreline in the hamlet of Perčanj. It was built in 1962 as the first vacation home in the settlement and carefully renovated in 2007 in the traditional local style, so the exterior keeps its original masonry character while the interior reflects the later refurbishment. The cottage sleeps 2 guests in 1 bedroom with 1 bed, and has 1 bathroom, making it a straightforward choice for a couple or a solo traveller who wants a self-contained place rather than a room in a larger building. Its elevated position, roughly 100 metres above sea level, gives it open outlooks over the Bay of Kotor. Kotor's walled Old Town, waterfront and bay-road villages are all within easy reach by car. Specific amenities are not listed for this property, so please confirm any particular requirements with the host before booking.

About the area

A hundred metres above the water on the Prčanj hillside is about the right height for this bay: high enough to take in the whole sweep of it, from the narrows at Verige to the point where Kotor's fortifications climb the grey rock, and low enough that the sea is a walk down stone steps through olive and fig terraces. Traffic on the shore road below is a distant sound. What you notice instead are church bells across the water and ships turning slowly in the channel.

Prčanj itself is a long, quiet waterfront village of captains' houses with swimming ladders, a handful of konobas and an outsized hillside church that took over a century to build. Kotor's Old Town is a quarter of an hour around the shore, and the medieval core — cathedral, museums, the stairs to the fortress — is best walked early or late. Over the ridge lies Tivat, with the airport and the yacht quays of Porto Montenegro, and at Lepetane a ferry crosses the narrows in a few minutes, cutting the drive to Herceg Novi and the open-sea beaches. Out of season the hill is close to silent, and that is when this side of the bay is at its best.