Our Lady of the Rocks is one of the two islands off the coast of the town of Perast in the Bay of Kotor. It is an artificial island created by sinking old ships laden with rocks. It houses the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Rocks, the only building on the island. According to legend, the island was made over the centuries. By the sailors who kept an ancient oath after an icon of the Virgin Mary and Child was found on a rock in the sea in the same place in 1452, and upon returning from each successful voyage, they placed a rock in the bay, and with the passage of time, the island gradually appeared on the surface of the sea, and it continued Usually throw stones into the sea to this day.