In 1691, the architect Ivan Scarpa from the island of Hvar, nicknamed “the Baptist,” built next to the Church of St. Nicholas a bell tower of a mixed Romanesque-Baroque-Renaissance style, the highest on the eastern Adriatic coast (55 meters). The clock on the bell tower was brought from Venice and installed in 1730. The inscription on the bell tower says that it was built in honor of getting rid of the Turkish threat after the Venetians captured Herceg Novi and Risan.