Ljuta

The settlement Ljuta is situated in the heart of Boka Bay, on northern side of Kotor. It’s about 7 km away from Kotor. In its centre, there is a baroque church dedicated to St Peter, which stands on a raised and enclosed pave plateau, almost by the seashore. It is built of ashlar transported from Korčula. According to archive sources, the construction works took several decades and were finished in 1780. The year and a mention of the patron saint are chiselled on the west facade. The interior consist of a spacious nave covered with a ceiling and a somewhat narrower altar space which square in plan and vaulted; via ribs, the vaulting resists on the corner pilasters. such lay-out is reminiscent of Our Lady of Rocks of Perast that obviously served as an example to the masons.

There are three marble altars in St Peter’s Church. The principal one has a pala d’altare depicting the titular saint with angels.

The south altar, donated by Captain Luka Radimir, is dedicated to St Luke and bears a representation of a group of holy personages. Both paintings have come from member of the artistic circle around the Venetian master Fonte Basso. The north altar has an icon of the Virgin with Child, in a silver icon-cover, wich belongs to the so-called Hodgetaira type. The icon is specially venerated by the townsmen of Ljuta due to a vow given during the 1855 cholera epidemic.

The altar itself was donated by the Dabinović family who were respectable seamen and carried out in 1803 by Michele Girardi, a not-so-renowned artist from Venice.