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Advantages: Lots of culture and history, cheap, tasty food, kind people Disadvantages: Those slippy footpaths!
than just this famous bridge.
Mostar was the first call on our brief tour of Bosnia; we came by bus from the Croatian coastal city of Split. As the crow flies the distance is not great but the mighty Dinaric Alps form a barrier between the two and this makes the journey duration much longer. We left Split at 6.00am which was not ideal but the journey took three and a half hours whereas the 9.00am coach journey took over five hours. Due to the geography it?s not possible to make this journey by train. If you are coming from the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, the journey takes approximately three hours. Train travel is possible but takes much longer and unfortunately we did not have enough time for that luxury.
We stayed on until the final stop as we figured we could get our bearings better by locating the bus station on the map and working ...
Advantages: Idyllic setting, fascinating history, friendly people Disadvantages: Difficult to get to - limited range of facilities
and helpful.
History
The first time Mostar was mentioned in written documents was 1452. In letters written by citizens of Dubrovnik the city was described as a small settlement with two towers around a wooden bridge stregthened by chains. Until the Turkish conquest, Mostar was considered to be a small and not very important place. There are two explanations for the origin of it's name. One is that it was called after bridge keepers (mostari) or after two towers which were called mostare. Mostar did start to develop and eventually became the centre of Herzegovina.
Until 1878, Mostar was under Ottoman rule although the Venetians tried several times to capture it. Austro-Hungarians occupation directed the town's economic and cultural development towards Europe. Although the the First World War slowed down the development of the town, World War ...
Advantages: Stunning architecture and setting, free, the handsome divers Disadvantages: Dives are at random times; very slippy stones underfoot
Perhaps because I live in Gateshead, where seven of them within a stones throw of each span the River Tyne linking us with Newcastle, bridges seem to strike a chord with me. Not only do their designs and the materials they are constructed from put them in a defined time but their very being often represents some important moment from history. Often so much more than just a crossing place, bridges can arise from or be symbolic of more than is at first obvious.
Since childhood I longed to see the Stari Most in the city of Mostar in what was then Yugoslavia, now Bosnia and Herzegovina. A family friend had been in the country and had brought back postcards of various sights in Yugoslavia, this being one of them. In particular I was fascinated by the divers, those brave ? some might say crazy ? young men who leap from the peak ...
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