Maybe you wonder why many names are in Italian here...I know why now!
Venice - La Serenissima Republica di Venezia -
owned the town of Perast between 1420 and 1797.
Perast (called Perasto in the Venetian language, spoken oficially there until the nineteenth century) was part of the Albania Veneta.
The city's sixteen Baroque palaces were mostly built in this period, too,
as were its seventeen Catholic and two Orthodox churches.
The old city does not have a defensive wall,
but instead has nine defensive towers,
the most important of which is the tower of the Holy Cross.
These were built by the navy of the Venetian Republic in the 15th and 16th centuries.