I'm taking a rest... Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Postcards from Sarajevo

Ancient ruins, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Latin Bridge, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Latin Bridge is the most known bridge over Miljacka river in Sarajevo.  It’s the place of infamous Sarajevo Assassination. Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophia were shot by Gavrilo Princip in 1914, which caused the beginning of WWI.

Behind the bridge, you see Museum Sarajevo 1878-1918. 

The Atmeydan Park and Music Pavilion, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Gazi Husrev Bey Madrassa, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

You’ll find it on Baščaršija just in front of the Gazi Husrev Bey Mosque. The entrance door is often closed, but maybe you’ll be lucky.  Gazi Husrev Bey Madrassa is the oldest surviving madrassa in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Happy Funday !

The Old Town - Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Old Bridge, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

It was built in 1566, completely destroyed in the war 1992-1995, reconstructed in 2004 and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2005.

According to UNESCO “The Old Bridge area, with its pre-Ottoman, eastern Ottoman, Mediterranean and western European architectural features, is an outstanding example of a multicultural urban settlement. To reconstructed Old Bridge and Old City of Mostar is a symbol of reconciliation, international co-operation and of the coexistence of diverse cultural, ethnic and religious communities”.

The Bridge on the Drina River, Višegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend our lives.
― Ivo Andrić

The Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge created in XVI century, written on the UNESCO world heritage list is mostly known because of the book “The Bridge on the Drina River” by Yugoslav writer Ivo Andrić, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961.