style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">is one of
the two
islets
off the coast of
Perast
in
Bay
of Kotor,Montenegro
(the other
being
Sveti Đorđe Island). It is
an
artificial island
created by bulwark of rocks and by
sinking old and seized ships loaded with rocks.
The
Roman
Catholic
Church of Our Lady of
the Rocks (Italian:
Chiesa della Madonna dello Scarpello) is the
largest building on the islet; it has a museum attached. There is also a small
gift shop close to the church and a navigation light at the western end of the
islet.
According to legend, the islet
was made over the centuries by the seamen who kept an ancient oath after
finding the icon of Madonna and
Child
