Banja Luka: Kastel, Ferhadija & Cathedral
The RS capital's riverside Kastel fortress on the Vrbas, the rebuilt 16th-century Ferhat-Pasha (Ferhadija) Mosque — a masterpiece destroyed in 1993 and…
The RS capital's riverside Kastel fortress on the Vrbas, the rebuilt 16th-century Ferhat-Pasha (Ferhadija) Mosque — a masterpiece destroyed in 1993 and reconstructed — and the orthodox Christ the Saviour Cathedral. Green, café-friendly, underrated.
Why go
- the fortress
- the resurrected Ferhadija
- leafy boulevards.
walk the Kastel walls then the riverside; the Ferhadija's reconstruction story is the city's emblem of return.
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