Gospa od Skrpjela is a picturesque island in front of Perast, with a church of the same name on it. It is an artificial island created by bulwark of rocks and by sinking old and seized ships loaded with rocks. There is a legend that fishermen from Perast found a miraculous icon of godmother with Christ at a sea crag, which ended there probably after a shipwreck. Today, the icon is in the main marble altar, behind which the original crag can be groped. The custom of throwing rocks into the sea is alive even nowadays. Every year on July 22, an event called “fasinada”, when local people throw rocks into the sea, widening the surface of the island, takes place. The interior of the church is rich in various valuables and gifts which sailors have been leaving here for centuries mostly out of superstition.