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Tivat, the youngest town in the Boka area, was established on the spacious plateau at the bottom of Vrmac. According to the archives of Kotor, the following names were mentioned here in the XIV century: Teude, Theode, and Theudo, who are related to the queen Teuta. Unfortunately, there are not many written traces of the events that happened in this region at the time of Nemanjici, Balsici, Crnojevici, Venice, French, and Austrians. During the Middle ages and later the fertile land of the Tivat area mostly belonged to the aristocrats from Kotor, Prcanj and Dobrota. Here were their big properties, castles, and chalets as well as the collective church of St. Antun dating from 1373. Part of this inheritance, which was the property of the wealth Buca family, is a marvelous chalet which today houses Tivat’s museums and galleries. The residence of the metropolitan of Zeta’s diocese was built from the XIII to the XV century on the Prevlaka peninsula.

Tivat turned into a town by the end of XIX century when in 1889 the Naval arsenal was built. Half a century latter it was “flooded” with tourists. “Plavi Horizonti” (Blue horizons), “Mimoza” (Mimosa), “Kamelija”, and “Palma”, are the names of only a few hotels that, besides the private accommodations, can entertain up to eight thousand guests. The tourist settlement of “St. Marco”, built for the needs of the Parisian Mediterranean club, is certainly an attraction. It consists of about a hundred cottages, nicely fitted into the natural surrounding of dense greenery for the enjoyment of guests.

Beginning from 1971 the airport in Tivat acquired a modern runaway and it is now a significant airport for domestic and foreign air-traffic. The tourist potential of Tivat is yet to be fully realized. Only the inlets near Prevlaka, as well as the localities of Zupa and Kaliman, provide great conditions for the construction of marinas and yachting clubs. Even today, Tivat represents an interesting place for navigators.

THE ISLAND OF FLOWERS (Ostrvo cvijeca)

The luxurious apartments of the tourist complex called “the island of flowers”, is situated on Tivat’s Prevlaka. The thick archeological layers and the churchyard hide an unusual story about a rare woman that was far ahead of her time.

That woman was the countess Ekatarina Vlastelinovic, from the family of the famous poet and priest Jovan Sundecic, from Zadar. She was married to a rich man, Ilija Veselinovic, from Risan.  She had no heirs and became a widow at 25. With a promise that she would never marry again, this noble lady bought one third of Prevlaka for 400 ducats from the descendant of Kotor’s Drusko familly. She invested her large inheritance and wealth in the reconstruction of the damaged sacral objects on this little island. Even though she did not wear vestments, she became a nun and the founder of the monastery. The noble countess chose to live ascetically until the end of her life. Spiritual fathers used to say: “She embraced serenity and obedience and this noble widow became engaged to Christ!” Feeling the premonition of death, the countess Ekatarina bequeathed all her works and all the remaining property to Petar Perovic Njegos! According to chroniclers she often had contacts with this great man, as well as with St. Peter Cetinjski. She was killed by a lead bullet by an anonymous killer and she died on Prevlaka on 2 March, 1842, where she rests today.