The name of this pleasant town of around 11,000, two hours and 20 minutes northeast of Sarajevo, will long live in infamy because of Bosnian Serbs´ massacre in 1995 of some 8,000 Bosniak men and boys - Europe´s largest mass murder since the Holocaust and classified as an act of genocide. It´s memorialized by the moving Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial (pictured here) as well as an extensive war cemetery. There are fewother "sights" to see here per se, but its mountainous surrounding region of Crni Gruber is full of attractions for nature and outdoors enthusiasts, including the beautiful Studenica River Canyon; picturesque Lake Perućac in the Drina River Valley, which attracts visitors during the summer and offers lots of water sports; and impressive, 2,019-meter (6,624-foot) Rakoč Peak, with sweeping vistas.
Read more in Tripatini contributor Junaid Hasan´s post ´Dark Tourism´ in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Journey Through Shadows and History.
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