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2014; August; Balkan Peninsula; Balkans; Bosnia and Hercegovina; Bridge - Built Structure; Color Image; Horizontal; Mostar; Neretva; No People; Photography; Stari Most; Summer; Tourism; Travel Destinations; Vacations;
The Stari Most (Old Bridge) on the Neretva in Mostar, Bosnia

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Overview

Mostar is the largest city in Hercegovina, with a small but thoroughly enchanting old town centre. At dusk the lights of numerous millhouse restaurants twinkle across gushing streams, narrow Kujundžiluk bustles joyously with trinket sellers and, in between, the Balkans' most celebrated bridge forms a majestic stone arc between medieval towers.

Attractions

Must-see attractions

Stari Most

Mostar

The world-famous Stari Most (meaning simply 'Old Bridge') is Mostar's indisputable visual focus. Its pale stone magnificently reflects the golden glow of…
Kajtaz House

Mostar

Hidden behind tall walls, Mostar's most interesting old house was once the harem (women's) section of a larger homestead built for a 16th-century Turkish…
Partisan Memorial Cemetery

Mostar

Although this cemetery is sadly neglected and badly vandalised, fans of 20th-century socialist architecture should seek out this magnificent memorial…
Koski Mehmed Pasha Mosque

Mostar

Entered from a gated courtyard, this 1618 mosque (substantially rebuilt after the war) has a dome painted with botanical motifs and punctuated by coloured…
Muslibegović House

Mostar

Ring the bell to be ushered into this walled Ottoman courtyard house, built in the late 17th century and extended in 1871. Its main function today is as…
Crooked Bridge

Mostar

Built around 1558, this pint-sized bridge crosses the tiny Radobolja River amid a layered series of picturesque millhouse restaurants. The original bridge…
Španski trg

Mostar

In the early 1990s, Croat and Bosniak forces bombarded each other into the rubble across a front line that ran along the Bulevar. Even now, several shell…
Bišćevića Ćošak

Mostar

Built in 1635, this is one of Mostar's very few traditional Ottoman houses to retain its original appearance, albeit now with trinkets for sale and a…