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Viziers Graves

TIME : 2016/2/18 16:54:52

Travnik was long home to Bosnia's 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 pillars that were once colourfully painted. Between the two is a dribbling drinking fountain with Arabic inscription stone (dated AH 1271, or 1885 AD).

On the other side of the road beside the MediaShop computer store, there's an Ottoman stone arch through which are more graves. One is an octagonal 'turbe ' and associated marble fountain tower (rebuilt 2011) that looks a little like a Parisian newspaper stall.