Travnik: Fortress, Andrić & the Coloured Mosque
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…
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 birth house of Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić, author of "Bosnian Chronicle."
Why go
- the fortress
- the unusual painted mosque
- Andrić's birthplace
- Plava Voda springs.
combine the fortress, the mosque and lunch over the Plava Voda springs into one easy half-day.
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