Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge, 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…
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 and the kapija landing where the town's history played out.
Why go
- a literary monument
- the Drina's green water
- the kapija.
read (or skim) Andrić before you go — then sit on the kapija where the whole novel happens.
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