This is the second part of my posts about Kotor, the first part is here :
https://hive.blog/hive-163772/@noemilunastorta/my-honeymoon-trip-kotor-part-1-one
We had a nice coffee before we continue our visit than we decide to visit some interesting sites of the city we brought a ticket for visiting Saint Paul church , the solidarity gallery and church of Saint Michel, the ticket was really cheap only five euros.
The Saint Paul church was a monastery, in fact there are still many nuns that visited it, it was initially a male monastery than became a female monastery. It was built in 1263. It's a domenican monastery, pretty interesting it's the story about Blessed Osanna a saint that pass all of her short life walled up in her cell, such a big example of devotion but she break here closure when the Turk Barbarossa attaches Kotor she went close to the attack for pray and giving hope and courage to soldiers and people. Barbarossa left the bay and abandoned the battle everyone thinks that the matter it's the force of the nun Osanna faith. The church was unfortunately no more a church during Napoleon's empire and Italian occupation and also after it it was a prison, actually have really nothing that remind it to a church, white walls with a museum of sewed stuff made by religious people and a garden really not neat but very chaotic and dirt used as a lapidarium but I made photos only of the inner church because o don't find so much interesting in the ambience but the story of it it's really charming. When it was under Tito it was a female prison.
The second place we visited not so far from the church it's the solidarity gallery with more than 400 art pieces ( sculptures, painting, graphic art, photographs) dedicated to the big earthquake that destroyed Montenegro in 1979, you can also watch a super interesting documentary about the earthquake and the people who rebuilt the city, there are original videos of many common people that help in the reconstruction.
The video was really one of the most interesting documentary I have seen it's also impressive see how the city it's changed after the earthquake.
Visiting the gallery was interesting and the guide explained really well to us the art operas and the town history.
The third thing we visited was the saint Michael church lapidarium.
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The church was a Roman gothic only nave church, little but charming. It was builted on a early Romanesque church and in the 80 some archeologists prove it and find many interesting things. Most of the funded fragments are part of the lapidarium, this church was also used by the French as a troop house during the war it's unfortunately not help the architect and conservation of the church, there are still and old fresco made by an artist from Kotor.
Those sites was all interested than we continue our trip to another church and some nice streets that I will describe in my next post, see you soon.