Viziers Graves
Travnik was long home to Bosnias Ottoman governors (viziers) and many of their finely carved tombstones remain along with those of prominent court officials and poets. Opposite UniCredit Bank, four such graves are gathered under two distinctive ceremonial domes balanced on stone pi
Despića Kuća
The Despića Kuća is one of the oldest surviving residential buildings in central Sarajevo, though youd never guess so from the ho-hum facade. Inside, however, its a house within a house, the original 1780 section retaining even the prison-style bars on stone window frames. Wrapped
Orthodox Cathedral of Christ Saviour
Selectively photographed, the fine buildings within a block of Trg Srpskikh Vladara could make the folks at home believe that Banja Luka was actually beautiful. The centrepiece is an iconic Orthodox Cathedral of Christ Saviour with a gilded dome and brick bell tower that looks like
Tekija
Blagajs signature attraction is this pretty half-timbered Dervish House standing beside the surreally blue-green Buna River where it gushes out of a cliff-cave. Upstairs the Tekijas wobbly wooden interior has some attractive woodwork and a fine ceiling in the Firdevs room. The com
History Museum
Around half of the small but engrossing History Museum non-ideologically charts the course of the 1990s conflict. Affecting personal exhibits include examples of food aid, stacks of Monopoly-style 1990s dinars and a makeshift siege-time home. The exhibitions maudlin effect is empha
Sarajevo City Hall
Storybook neo-Moorish facades make the 1898 Vijećnica Sarajevos most beautiful Austro-Hungarian–era building. Seriously damaged during the 1990s siege, it has been laboriously restored and reopened in 2014. As yet the only exhibits are a small collection of photos about the buildin
AVNOJ Museum
AVNOJ, the anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia coordinating resistance against the regions occupation during WWII, had its second meeting in Jajce in late November 1943. The banal 1930s brown-stone building in which they met became a museum in 1953 and wa
National Museum
Bosnias biggest and best-endowed museum was closed in October 2012 due to persistent funding problems. Ironically, it had been a rare institution to have remained at least partly functioning throughout the siege era, and its impressive 1913 quadrangle of neo-classical 1913 building
Srebrenica Memorial Hall
Opposite the Srebrenica memorial is the derelict battery factory complex that formed the UN compound in 1995. The big central building is where some 5000 refugees sought refuge directly before the massacres (many more were turned away). Today this poignantly miserable hangar, with
Štrbački Buk
The toughest rafting section of the Una River starts with a big splash descending the lower section of this dramatic double waterfall. YouTube videos show daredevils diving off the 18m higher falls but such antics reputedly resulted in hospitalisations and are by no means recommend
Tunnel Ravne
For visitors, probably the most popular aspect of the pyramid archaeological zone is the Ravne labyrinth. A dozen or more kilometres of tunnels supposedly date back many millenia. Though later filled up and only re-excavated over the past decade, guides suggested that they were ori
Pyramid of the Sun
Is Visokos 250m-high Visočica Hill in fact the Worlds Greatest Pyramid? Thats the intriguing if widely discredited theory of Semir Osmanagic, an American-Bosnian Indiana Jones–style researcher who claims it was built approximately 12,000 years ago by a long-disappeared superculture
Stari Most
The world-famous Stari Most (Old Bridge) is Mostars indisputable visual focus. Its pale stone arch magnificently throws back the golden glow of sunset or the tasteful night-time floodlighting. The bridges swooping stone arch was originally built between 1557 and 1566 on the orders
Vratnik
Built in the 1720s and reinforced in 1816, Vratnik Citadel once enclosed a whole area of the upper city. Patchy remnants of wall fragments, military ruins and gatehouses remain. The urban area is appealingly untouristed with many small mosques and tile-roofed houses, and there are
Svrzo House
An oasis of white-washed walls, cobbled courtyards and partly vine-draped dark timbers, this 18th-century house-museum is brilliantly restored and appropriately furnished, helping visitors imagine Sarajevo life in eras past. Notice the čekme dolaf (food hatch), designed to prevent
Tunnel Museum
The most visceral of Sarajevos many 1990s war-experience attractions, this unmissable museums centrepiece and raison dêtre is a short section of the 1m wide, 1.6m high hand-dug tunnel under the airport runway which acted as the citys lifeline to the outside world during the 1992–95
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