Two hours southwest of Sarajevo, this city of about 113,000 people is famous for its atmospheric 16th-century old quarter and especially its stunning, Stari Most (Old Bridge), which was destroyed in 1993, rebuilt in 2004, and declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005. Apart from the bridge, much of the damage was in the newer districts, which has largely been cleaned up. Meanwhile, tour operators offer walking tours including testimony from locals about those terrible years, and a Museum of War and Genocide Victims 1992-1995 near the bridge lays it all out in graphic detail as well.
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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