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Thomson Dream docked in the port of Kotor, Montenegro.
The photo was taken during a 3 mile climb up 1350 steps to the Castle of San Giovanni which overlooks Kotor old town at 820 feet above sea level.
Built between the 9th and 19th centuries, the fortification’s walls didn’t actually create a continuous ring around Kotor’s Old Town until the 13th or 14th century. While the Venetians were responsible for the bulk of the fortification’s components, the Illyrians, Byzantines, and Austrians also left their marks. In the last 500 years, powerful earthquakes have rocked the area three times, damaging the Old Town and the fortifications. The most recent earthquake occurred in 1979.
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