Miholjska prevlaka
Miholjska prevlaka, also known as "Island of Flowers", is an island in the Adriatic Sea in Boka Kotorska, in the Montenegrin municipality of Tivat.
History and description
Miholjska prevlaka is located near the town of Tivat, in the Bay of Kotor. The island is 300 m long and 200 m wide. It is connected with mainland by a narrow isthmus.
The island was the residence of the metropolitan of Zeta’s diocese from 13th to the 15th century. It was a tourist resort for the military personnel, closed for general public in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia period. It is today populated with about a hundred people, mainly living in bungalows.
On Prevlaka island, there is also a famous Monastery of the Archangel Michael, which is undergoing a restoration. Today's monastery sits on nearly the same location which occupied the previous one which was destroyed by Venetian Republic in 1441, after it was proclaimed to be off limits due to the rumors of a plague breakout. Recent research by the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade, using recovered remains of monks from that time have revealed that the monks died probably due to arsenic poisoning.
See also
- Boka Kotorska
- Sveti Marko Island
- Prevlaka Peninsula, also located in the Bay of Kotor, but belonging to Croatia.