Sarajevo History
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Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Go to the Tunnel Museum. Most hostels and tourist bureaus will know about this small private museum run by the family that has always lived in this house and can arrange a van and guide to drive you here. It is outside of the town but it is a fascinating piece of history -- the remains of the tunnel dug under the airport during the war to get food and supplies into Sarajevo. The guides all lived through the war and have their own fascinating stories, plus they can point you to other great sites throughout the city.
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Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Princip Museum
For the - most likely - last but one presentation in my Bosnian project. Showing new colleagues the old town - Latinska Cuprija is especially beautiful at night - I came across the city's newest curiosity, and what strange form of serendipity: just at the right time: Just where Latinska Cuprija leads towards the old town, at the corner of what is now Obala Kulina Bana and Ulica Kundzurdziluk, Gavrilo Princip , am ethnic Serb, assassinated the Austrian crown prince Franz Ferdinand , an event that led to the outbreak of World War One. He did this exactly 93 years ago, on June 28th, 1914. And just today, at this very place, I came across something that shows a ray of hope: Gavrilo Princip used to be a big hero in Yugoslavia and had streets named after him all over the place - Latinska Cuprija was called Princip Bridge until 1995 - but being a Serb nationalist he was not too popular in Bosnia after the war and there was hardly any trace left of the momentous event. The street's names have been changed and after they finished rebuilding the Gavrilo Princip bridge that was destroyed in the recent war the name was changed to Latin Bridge. A little museum at the corner, once dedicated to Princip and his fellow plotters, was closed during the 1992-95 Bosnian war: Princip had to go—Bosnian Muslims and Croats saw him as a Serbian hero. In a city full of painful history it's just one more thing one wanted to forget about. Lo and behold: Only a few days ago it finally reopened, reborn as the 1878-1918 gallery of the Sarajevo Museum, containing artefacts to do generally with Bosnia's occupation under the Austro-Hungarian empire. The museum's vicissitudes reflect the city's ambiguous and ever-changing relationship with its own past. In 1917 the Austro-Hungarians erected a giant monument at the assassination site. Nearly two years later it was ripped down by the new Yugoslav authorities—though strangely a large central medallion from the monument, bearing the image of Franz Ferdinand and his wife, survives to this day in the basement of another Sarajevo gallery. And tonight, walking by, I saw it: nicely done, with multimedia presentations and all the bells and whistles one would like to see (see vid below). A little step for tourism, a big step for Bosnia.
For the - most likely - last but one presentation in my Bosnian project. Showing new colleagues the old town - Latinska Cuprija is especially beautiful at night - I came across the city's newest curiosity, and what strange form of serendipity: just at the right time: Just where Latinska Cuprija leads towards the old town, at the corner of what is now Obala Kulina Bana and Ulica Kundzurdziluk, Gavrilo Princip , am ethnic Serb, assassinated the Austrian crown prince Franz Ferdinand , an event that led to the outbreak of World War One. He did this exactly 93 years ago, on June 28th, 1914. And just today, at this very place, I came across something that shows a ray of hope: Gavrilo Princip used to be a big hero in Yugoslavia and had streets named after him all over the place - Latinska Cuprija was called Princip Bridge until 1995 - but being a Serb nationalist he was not too popular in Bosnia after the war and there was hardly any trace left of the momentous event. The street's names have been changed and after they finished rebuilding the Gavrilo Princip bridge that was destroyed in the recent war the name was changed to Latin Bridge. A little museum at the corner, once dedicated to Princip and his fellow plotters, was closed during the 1992-95 Bosnian war: Princip had to go—Bosnian Muslims and Croats saw him as a Serbian hero. In a city full of painful history it's just one more thing one wanted to forget about. Lo and behold: Only a few days ago it finally reopened, reborn as the 1878-1918 gallery of the Sarajevo Museum, containing artefacts to do generally with Bosnia's occupation under the Austro-Hungarian empire. The museum's vicissitudes reflect the city's ambiguous and ever-changing relationship with its own past. In 1917 the Austro-Hungarians erected a giant monument at the assassination site. Nearly two years later it was ripped down by the new Yugoslav authorities—though strangely a large central medallion from the monument, bearing the image of Franz Ferdinand and his wife, survives to this day in the basement of another Sarajevo gallery. And tonight, walking by, I saw it: nicely done, with multimedia presentations and all the bells and whistles one would like to see (see vid below). A little step for tourism, a big step for Bosnia.
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Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
You really should go to this city. Especially to the arabic area. The little (guest-) houses, the mosques and the traditional shops are just lovely. Also it's very interesting 'cause of the history of the city (under the regime of "Kaiser Franz", the different religions of the region during the time and the wars residua).
Also the nightlife is quite good (cute shisha-bars). But the taxis takes sometimes to much money from the tourists.
But all in all it's just an other and very interesting city. The people are lovely. You really should take enough time for take a lot of impressions, it's worth...
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