Risan

Risan is the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the Bay of Kotor, founded in the 3rd century BC as the stronghold of the Illyrian Queen Teuta, who ruled the coast until the Roman legions arrived. Known in antiquity as Rhizon, it lends its name to the inner basin, the Bay of Risan, the widest and most open stretch of the inner fjord. The town sits dramatically beneath the bare grey ridges of the Orjen massif on the northern shore, where the mountains fall almost straight into still, deep water.