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Introducing Sarajevo

How can a people that has suffered so much produce a city of such vitality? This is a question you’ll ask yourself time and time again as you explore Sarajevo. In the 1990s this was a city and people on the edge of annihilation, but today it has become a favourite traveller destination.

Sarajevo is a living museum of history. And boy, is there a lot of it! Mosques, churches, cathedrals and fine municipal buildings built by the Ottoman Turks and Austria-Hungarians; a bridge where world history took a fateful turn; and the Tunnel Museum, the yellow Holiday Inn, and the artillery-scarred Library as reminders of recent tragedy.

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Latin Bridge straddles the River Miljacka.
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Latin Bridge straddles the River Miljacka.

Lonely Planet photographer
  • Patrick Horton
  • Lonely Planet photographer
  • City Hall and Library with minaret in foreground.
  • Carpet salesman, Carpet souk, Turkish Quarter.
  • The Eternal Flame, memorial to WWII soldiers.
  • Houses on hills below 15th Century Alifakovac Muslim Cemetery.
  • Fountain at Gazi Husrev Bey Mosque, Bascarsija
  • Main square of Turkish section of Bascarsija with rooftops of Brusa Bezistan-Bazar in background,  Sebilji fountain in foreground.
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