Ratachskoe Abbey
   Photo: Abbey Ratachskoe

Sutomore - city, located 22 km from Petrovac, is home to about 5,000 people. In summer the town becomes a pedestrian area for tourists: the main street Sutomore (as in another resort town - Budva), runs parallel to the motorway, along the Adriatic coast. In addition, the city ends and begins Montenegrin Railways. Crowded beaches and picturesque surroundings - that's what makes Sutomore one of the most popular among tourists Montenegrin cities.

The peninsula Ratach are ruins of an ancient Benedictine monastery Ratachskoy Virgin, which is also called Ratachskim abbey. It is located in a conservation area.

Founded the monastery was in 1247, in 1571 the Ottoman army destroyed it completely, which led to his devastation. Before that, he also repeatedly attacked the Ottoman Empire.

It is known that before the monastery stood at the shoreline, and possessed him Benedictine fraternity. It is also in the possession of the brotherhood were the surrounding land, and representatives of the fraternity is actively engaged in trade and production of olive oil.

It was Ratachskom Abbey in the XII century appeared the first written literary monument of the South Slavs. We are talking about the "Annals Dukljanin ass."

On the same grounds are the ruins of the church of St. Mary, which was built in XII-XIII centuries. It kept the icon of the Mother of God - the object of worship of many pilgrims.

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