Place to see: Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sabilj Square

Sabilj Square by Ernest McLeod

A view towards "pigeon square" and the Sebilj fountain in the heart of Sarajevo's Old Town.

Sarajevo, River View
After the Storm, Sarajevo
Identity Crisis
Sabilj Square
Sarajevo Market

About this place:

Sarajevo is capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, well known as a host of the 14th winter Olympic games in 1984, a multicultural city that grow up on the line of interaction between the orient and the west, preserving traces of all the empires and cultures that shifted with each other over the centuries. Assassination of Austrian Emperor Ferdinand by a Serbian terrorist in 1914 marked the start of the 1st world war. From 1992 to 1995, during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo was under the seige, connected with the outside world with just a small tunnel under the airport. With such a rich history, Sarajevo is full of interesting places to see and to feel...

Postcards about Sarajevo:

  • Ernest McLeod

    6 March 2008
    From:
    Ernest McLeod

    I spent a month in Sarajevo this past fall. I must admit I was reluctant to visit. Though I knew the war was over, I worried what the city would be like after such devastation. The truth is, evidence of war's destruction is still everywhere. But so is life. I will vividly remember the majestic valley isolation, the minarets twinkling at night, the muezzin calls, snow-capped mountaintops in September, burek followed by ice creams at outdoor cafés, Old Town cobblestones under a full moon, climbing climbing climbing the steep streets back to our apartment. Roses, everywhere roses.

Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BA

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Discovered by Hazim Sabanovic
on 10 November 2007.
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