Rector's Palace

This guide to the Rector's Palace in Kotor, the long, strangely narrow home of the city's Venetian governors on the Square of Arms, begins with a spring morning in sixteen sixty-seven when the whole southern Adriatic coast began to shake. It touches Venice's four centuries in the bay, the soldiers who mustered below, and the stone brackets that once held a balcony. Best heard from a café table facing the western side of the square.