Kotor - lying huddled underneath the rocks of Mount Lovcen at the farthest end of the fjord, Kotor is unique in its setting and history. Following prehistoric settlements, Kotor was fortified by the Illyrians, a bishop’s seat under Roman influence, sacked by the Saracens in 867 and by the Bulgarians in 1002, a trading spot under Byzantine protection, part of the Serbian state of Nemanjics in 1186, an influent trading spot of the Adriatic in the 14th c. of Byzantine and Western influence, under Venetian rule in 1420, fell unto the hands of the Ottomans and sheltered a number of Renaissance artists in the 16th and 17th centuries while resisting Turkish attacks. When the Venetian republic was abolished by Napoleon, the local Catholics and Orthodox united with Montenegro in 1813. Within its high stone walls, the constricted streets are bordered with stone edifices and paved with multicoloured slabs.