Bosnia Herzegovina Attractions

Not a Scottish indie band in sight

Advantages: Packs lots into a small exhibition; reasonably priced
Disadvantages: None really but some might leave wanting more

...world, especially those who remembered Sarajevo as it was just a decade earlier when the city hosted the Winter Olympic Games of 1984. This was Sarajevo’s heyday: the eighties were a good time for the city and the hosting of the games was considered a success. However, that fact that the games went to Sarajevo at all, or, more correctly, that it was even considered as a candidate, was a contentious one. Many believed, certainly within Yugoslavia ...
...event. The debate was fierce; Sarajevo had no proper facilities and no particular history of competitive skiing and other snow sports while resorts in Slovenia had plenty of facilities and hosted international competitions already. While most countries would have been proud to have any of their cities host such a prestigious event, the debate in Yugoslavia dragged on and on. Seventy years before Sarajevo hosted the Winter Olympics, the city acquired ...

fizzytom 24.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sarajevo 1878-1918 Museum, Sarajevo

Sarajevo's underground lifeline

Advantages: An important piece of recent history, interesting, enlightening
Disadvantages: Not a great deal to see so for the really interested only

...four years the people of Sarajevo were trapped in their city, often cold, usually hungry as missiles rained down on them. In spite of many months of fierce attack plucky Sarajevo managed to defend itself – thanks mainly to an 800 metre tunnel that connected the city with “Free Bosnia”. How the exact location of the tunnel was not discovered by the Serbs is a miracle. The tunnel runs under Sarajevo Airport which, although it was designated a neutral ...
...into the city. Without it Sarajevo would have fallen. The tunnel was the only way the Bosnian defence forces based in the city could get round the arms embargo. It was the Bosnian capital’s only lifeline. You might well ask why the tunnel was not used to evacuate the city – at least to free civilians who weren’t actively involved in the defence of the city. Quite simply, the tunnel was a useful propaganda tool. The government recognised that only ...

fizzytom 30.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sarajevo Tunnel Museum, Sarajevo