The city of Mostar is a mixed Muslim and Croat city about an hour's drive inland from Croatia.
The city's main attraction is the Turkish bridge built in 1566 when the area was under rule of the Ottoman empire.
At one point I could count 7 minarets from mosques within eyesight.
"Western" visitors to the city in the 19th and 20th centuries refused to believe that the Turk's built the
bridge because they couldn't believe something so beautiful was built by an eastern culture.
The EU and the World Bank had rebuilt the old city, restoring the walking only district.
"A city without a center is like an oyster without a pearl."
The CroatianSerbian and Montenegrian forces blew up the bridge during the conflict in the 1990s. Over 200,000 residents
died in the fighting, one million fled to Croatia, and another million took refuge in Europe to the West. Of course,
all of the numbers are open to dispute. The bridge was rebuilt finally in 2002.
Bosnian coffee... I told myself I loved it.
The Bosnian Convertible Mark and the Euro are accepted currency. You gotta love the shades...
Pasha's mosque was destroyed by the Serbs but later rebuilt. The imam here was a nice guy.
About half of the buildings outside the city center looked like this.
