Where WWI Started, Four Faiths Coexist & the Longest Modern Siege Left Visible Scars
📍 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina📅 3-day itinerary
The city where one pistol shot at the Latin Bridge on 28 June 1914 triggered the First World War, where the longest siege of a capital city in modern warfare lasted 1,425 days and left bullet holes still visible in the facades along Sniper Alley, and where the Ottoman Baščaršija bazaar, the Austro-Hungarian National Library, the Catholic cathedral and the Ashkenazi synagogue stand within 500 metres of each other as the densest expression of European religious and cultural coexistence anywhere on the continent.
The 45 cm of Pavement Where Gavrilo Princip Stood When He Fired the Shot That Triggered the First World War & The 1896 National Library That Burned for Three Days in 1992 Destroying Two Million Books
The 800-Metre Hand-Dug Tunnel Under an Airport Runway That Was the Only Supply Route Into a City of 350,000 for 1,425 Days & The Hillside Cemetery Where Gravestones All Read 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995
The Ottoman Arch Bridge Destroyed Deliberately in 1993 and Rebuilt Stone-by-Stone Using the Original 16th-Century Technique & The Dervish Monastery Built Directly Into a Cliff Face Above Europe's Largest River Spring