An Ottoman stone bridge over the Miljacka River, and the place where the history of the 20th century changed course. On 28 June 1914, at the corner by the bridge, Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, triggering the First World War.
The Museum of Sarajevo 1878–1918, on the corner, tells the story of the assassination and of the city under Austro-Hungarian rule. It's a short walk from Baščaršija.
Sarajevo's old Ottoman bazaar, a maze of cobbled lanes lined with copper workshops, cafés and ćevapi grills, centred on the Sebilj, a wooden fountain.
During the siege of Sarajevo from 1992 to 1995, a tunnel 800 m long was dug under the airport runway to connect the besieged city with free territory.
Bosnia's oldest national park, with Perućica, one of the last primeval forests in Europe, and Maglić, the country's highest mountain (2,386 m).
A slender 16th-century Ottoman bridge arching high over the emerald Neretva River in Mostar, about halfway between Dubrovnik and Sarajevo.
A 16th-century Dervish monastery (tekke) built at the foot of a 200 m cliff, beside the spring of the Buna River, which gushes out of a cave as a ful…
A wide semicircle of waterfalls, about 25 m high, on the Trebižat River, pouring into a green pool surrounded by trees.
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