Bosnia and Herzegovina Gallery

Mostar, the Old Bidge over the Neretva river, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Old Bridge (Stari Most) reflected in Neretva River, Bosnia and Hercegovina, at dusk, long exposure. The bridge is a famous tourist destination and was destroyed in the Bosnian War in 1993 but rebuilt ten years later.
Mostar was named after the bridge keepers (mostari) who in the medieval times guarded the Stari Most (Old Bridge) over the Neretva. The Old Bridge, built by the Ottomans in the 16th century, is one of Bosnia and Herzegovina's most recognizable landmarks, and is considered one of the most exemplary pieces of Islamic architecture in the Balkans.
In 2005 the Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar was added to the Unesco world heritage list

© 2016 Frans Sellies

Mehmed PaA¡a SokoloviA‡ Bridge on the Drina River, ViA¡egrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mehmed PaA?a SokoloviA? Bridge is the famous Bridge from the Yugoslavian Novelist Ivo Andric's book the Bridge on the Drina'.
It was built at the end of the 16th century by the architect Mimar Koca Sinan for Grand Vizir Mehmed PaA?a SokoloviA?.
The bridge is characteristic of the Ottoman monumental architecture and civil engineering. It has 11 masonry arches with spans of 11 m to 15 m. The 179.5 m long bridge is a masterpiece of Sinan, one of the greatest architects of the classical Ottoman period and a contemporary of the Italian Renaissance, with which his work may be compared. It is located in ViA?egrad, East of Bosnia and Herzegovina

© 2011 Jean-Philippe Tournut

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