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18 places
Banja Luka & RS West · Banja Luka
The RS capital's riverside Kastel fortress on the Vrbas, the rebuilt 16th-century Ferhat-Pasha (Ferhadija) Mosque — a masterpiece destroyed in 1993 and…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
The 15th-century Ottoman bazaar at the heart of Sarajevo — a warren of coppersmiths' alleys, mosques, hans and the wooden Sebilj fountain where pigeons swarm.
Herzegovina · Blagaj
A white 16th-century Sufi dervish lodge built against a sheer cliff at the source of the Buna — one of the most beautiful settings in the country, where a…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
The grandest Ottoman mosque in BiH (1531), centre of a vast endowment that built the bazaar, the bezistan covered market, a madrasa and a clock tower set to…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
A boutique hotel built into a restored 15th-century Ottoman hammam in the heart of Baščaršija — guests can use the working Turkish bath.
Herzegovina · Mostar
A 17th-century mosque beside the Old Bridge whose minaret you can climb for the postcard view straight down onto the bridge and the Neretva — the classic…
Central Bosnia · Kakanj
The medieval royal seat of the Bosnian kingdom — a Franciscan monastery and museum at Kraljeva Sutjeska and the ruined royal fortress of Bobovac in the…
Herzegovina · Mostar
The cobbled coppersmith-and-souvenir bazaar around the Old Bridge, plus the small "Crooked Bridge" (Kriva ćuprija) over the Radobolja — said to have been…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar
The Ottoman bridge beside the corner where Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, lighting the fuse of WWI.
Northeast Bosnia · Maglaj/Tešanj
Two well-preserved hilltop old towns in the north — Tešanj's large medieval-Ottoman fortress above its bazaar, and Maglaj's compact citadel over the Bosna.
East Bosnia & the Drina · Višegrad
The 16th-century UNESCO bridge across the Drina immortalized in Ivo Andrić's Nobel-winning novel "The Bridge on the Drina" — eleven graceful stone arches…
Herzegovina · Mostar
An award-winning 17th-century Ottoman residence in Mostar's old town that's both a national monument (open to day visitors) and a boutique hotel — sleep in…
Herzegovina · Čapljina
A stacked stone Ottoman-Mediterranean village tumbling down a hillside above the Neretva — fortress, mosque, hammam and the medersa, draped in fig and…
Herzegovina · Mostar
The UNESCO-listed 16th-century Ottoman arch over the Neretva, destroyed in 1993 and painstakingly rebuilt — Mostar's soul and one of the Balkans' iconic…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
A perfectly preserved 18th-century Ottoman-era family house turned museum — separate men's and women's quarters, courtyards, hand-carved wood and period…
Central Bosnia · Travnik
The historic seat of the Ottoman viziers — a hilltop fortress, the ornately painted Šarena (Coloured) Mosque with a bazaar built into its base, and the…
Herzegovina · Trebinje
A laid-back Herzegovinian town of plane-tree squares, a walled Ottoman old quarter, and the relocated 16th-century Arslanagić (Perovića) Bridge —…
Central Bosnia · Zenica
A compact medieval fortress-village wrapped in a bend of the Bosna river north of Zenica — once a royal stronghold, now a tiny museum, mosque and a few…