The bay consists of many smaller broad bays, united by narrower channels, forming one in every of the best natural harbours in Europe. The bay inlet was formerly a river system. Terribly intensive tectonics and karstification processes led to the disintegration of this river. Once significant rain the famous waterfall of Sopot spring at Risan seems, and Škurda, another documented spring runs through a canyon from Lovcen.
The outermost a part of the bay is that the Bay of Tivat (Teodo) and alittle naval port, currently being remodeled into a state of the art Super Yacht Marina, Porto Montenegro. On the seaward aspect, there's the Bay of Herceg Novi (Castelnuovo), that guards the most entrance to the Bay of Kotor. The inner bays are the Bay of Risan to the northwest and also the Bay of Kotor to the southeast.
On the landward aspect, the long walls running from the fortified recent city of Kotor to the castle of Saint John, far above, fashioned a putting feature within the landscape; and also the heights of the Krivošije (Krivoscie), a gaggle of barren plateaus in Mount Orjen, were topped by little forts.
There are several fascinating places on the shores of the Bay of Kotor. Herceg Novi has an Orthodox convent of St. Sava nearby (Savina monastery) standing amid stunning gardens. It had been founded within the sixteenth century and contains several fine specimens of seventeenth century silversmiths' work. Eight miles (12.87 km) east of Herceg Novi, there's a Benedictine monastery on alittle island opposite Perast (Perasto). Perast itself was for a time an freelance state within the 14th century.
