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Ashkenazi Synagogue
This 1902 neo-Moorish building is Sarajevos main place of worship for the citys much-diminished Jewish community.
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Šarića Kuća
The 1735 Šarića house forms part of Stolacs central knot of historic buildings and hosts a small gallery-museum.
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Elči
This beautifully restored Moorish-style Islamic school building lies just off the main highway close to the Plava Voda area.
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Sv Ivana Krstitelja Church
This church has a central spired tower plated with verdigis green copper sheeting and in front theres an alien-eyed bust of Ivo Andrić.
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Franciscan Church
With its unfeasibly tall tower, the Fransiscan Church is a 2000 rebuild on the site of an 1866 original. The interior has a stark, concrete simplicity.
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St James Church
Međugorjes central focus is this double-towered 1969 church with a large overspill area behind. Theres a busy mass program held in a variety of languages.
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Sultan Sulejman Mosque
Built in 1520, though restored extensively in 1891, this is one of BiHs oldest domed mosques, and its inner courtyard looks beautiful when gently lit at sunset.
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Nesuh
Named for the sponsor of the original 1564 structure, or alternatively nicknamed džamija pod lipom , the mosque under the lime tree is an attractive complex in a roadside cemetery.
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Sarajevo 1878–1918
This one-room exhibition examines the citys Austro-Hungarian–era history and the infamous 1914 assassination of Franz Ferdinand that happened right outside, ultimately setting off WWI. Free audioguide.
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Srebrenica
The sombre Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial is a sparse but moving gallery remembering the efforts at identifying remains from mass graves, plus a vast graveyard of the victims so far so identified.
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Festina Lente
The 2012 Festina Lente footbridge crosses the narrow Miljacka River with an Escheresque loop-the-loop in its centre. The name means Hurry Slowly, an aphorism often used to sum up the Bosnian attitude to life.
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Roznamedži Ibrahimefendi Mosque
This early-17th-century mosque was the only one to survive the 1993–95 shelling relatively unscathed. Its associated madrassa, demolished in 1960, has now also been rebuilt, the new reincarnation hosting shops and a cafe.
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Ljubljanska Banka Tower Ruin
Of several ruined structures remaining around Spanski Trg, perhaps the most disturbing hulk is the triangular nine-storey skeleton of what was once Ljubljanska Banka, used during the 1990s conflict as a snipers tower.
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Bočac Citadel
Visible from the road around halfway between Jajce and Banja Luka, stubby, somewhat overgrown, rocky fortress ruins are all that remains of the 15th-century town of Bočac Citadel. The site overlooks a forest ringed reservoir.
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Kula Širokac Tower
This stone gate tower holds half of the Izetbegović Museum but while you can exit from beside here, to enter the museum you will have to start from the Kula Ploče tower up the hill, which was built at the same time (early 1730s).
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Karađozbeg Mosque
Mostars most important mosque was built in 1557. Heavily damaged during the war, it has since been completely renovated with a distinctive lead-roofed wooden veranda and a four-domed madrassa annexe now partly used as a clinic.
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National Bank Building
Its not open to the public and guards dont like you photographing the facade, but this domineering building is a late art-deco classic exuding a sense of power and fronted by muscular male and female collossi, each bearing a globe lamp.
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Bursa Bezistan
With its six green-metal domes, the two-storey 1551 Bursa Bezistan was originally a silk-trading bazaar. Today its a small museum with bite-sized overviews of the citys history and a compelling model of Sarajevo as it looked in 1878.
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Hadži Alijina Mosque
Built in 1562, and meticulously rebuilt in 2005, the greatest charm of this stone mosque are the views from the terrace area, where youll also see various fragments of carvings from the original structure after its wanton destruction in 1993.
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City Baths
This complex was considered one of the finest public bathhouses in the Austro-Hungarian Balkans when opened in 1914. Severely damaged during the 1990s conflict it has been restored close to its original glory thanks to Italian donations.
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