By Vincent Noyoux (text) and Stephan Gladieu for
Le Figaro Magazine
(photos).
To discover
Montenegro: the Figaro travel guide
It is a fjord in the Mediterranean. A sea creeps between high cliffs covered with scrub, which open and close in a series of bays. The slope is so steep that the villages prefer to line up wisely at the edge of the translucent water rather than climb the mountain. Boats toss in the lapping of the waves, swimmers play water polo… Apart from the summer rush, the mouths of Kotor (also called “Boka Bay”) reign over the atmosphere of a Swiss lake, which contrasts with the rest of the region. country.
Even history was written differently.
Here lived the Illyrians, a rival people of the Romans.
In 168 BC, their fleet was destroyed in the bay by the Romans in a single day, it is said.
In despair, their queen Teuta threw herself into the water.
The invasions followed one another over the following centuries, civilizations coming and going like tides: Romans, Slavs, Byzantines,
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