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13 places
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar
A permanent photographic and multimedia memorial to Srebrenica, in the city centre — a powerful, dignified introduction for those who can't reach Potočari.
Herzegovina · Mostar
The hill over Mostar topped by a large cross, giving the widest panorama of the city, the Neretva and the surrounding mountains — loaded with wartime symbolism.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar
Traditional Bosnian fare in the famous "house of spite" — the Ottoman home its owner had moved brick-by-brick across the Miljacka rather than let the…
Banja Luka & RS West · Prijedor
A forested national park northwest of Banja Luka crowned by the monumental Mrakovica WWII memorial — a soaring concrete cylinder honouring the 1942 Battle…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar
The Ottoman bridge beside the corner where Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, lighting the fuse of WWI.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Ilidža
The forested Olympic plateau above Vrelo Bosne, with the abandoned 1984 ski-jump ramps (a haunting, photogenic ruin), cross-country trails, and cool pine…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Ferhadija
Sarajevo's neo-Gothic Catholic cathedral (1889) on the main promenade, its forecourt marked by "Sarajevo Roses" — shell-impact scars filled with red resin…
East Bosnia & the Drina · Srebrenica
The memorial centre and cemetery at Potočari commemorating the more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys killed in the July 1995 genocide — rows of white grave…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Konjic
A vast secret nuclear command bunker built into a mountain for Tito, declassified and now part Cold-War museum, part contemporary-art biennial — kilometres…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Trebević
The city's home mountain, reached by the rebuilt Trebević cable car from Baščaršija in minutes — panoramic views, forest trails, a luge/adventure park, and…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Butmir (Ilidža)
The museum at the surviving stretch of the hand-dug tunnel under the airport runway that kept besieged Sarajevo supplied 1992–95.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
Sarajevo's pseudo-Moorish 1896 landmark — once the National Library, shelled and burned in 1992 (two million books lost), now magnificently restored as a…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar
An award-winning museum built entirely from objects and stories of people who were children during the siege — a toy, a diary, a pair of shoes, each with…