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Top 10 sights in Sarajevo

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   Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque

   A mosque of 1531, the largest historic mosque in Bosnia, built with the endowment of an Ottoman governor along with a madrasa, a library and a bathhouse. Its clock tower keeps lunar time, reset twice a week — the only public clock in the world still doing so.

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   Latin Bridge

   An Ottoman stone bridge over the Miljacka. Franz Ferdinand's car turned at the corner beside it on 28 June 1914 and stopped in front of Gavrilo Princip, who had given up and gone for a sandwich; he shot the archduke and his wife from a few feet away.

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   Cathedral of Jesus' Heart

   The largest cathedral in Bosnia, finished in 1889 for a Catholic archdiocese re-established under Austrian rule. Several of the mortar scars in the pavement outside it have been filled with red resin — the Sarajevo roses that mark where people were killed in the siege.

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   National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

   The national museum, founded in 1888, and holder of the Sarajevo Haggadah — an illuminated Jewish manuscript of about 1350 from Spain, hidden by a Muslim librarian from the Nazis in 1942 and again during the siege. The museum was closed for lack of funding for three years after 2012.

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   Emperor's Mosque

   The first mosque built after the Ottoman conquest, completed in 1457 and rebuilt in the sixteenth century. It is the largest single-domed mosque in Bosnia, and effectively the point from which Sarajevo as a city dates.

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   Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in Sarajevo

   The Serbian Orthodox cathedral, built in the 1860s with a donation from the Ottoman sultan among others, and a national monument since 2006. Its iconostasis was painted in Vienna, which was where Sarajevo's Orthodox merchants had their business.

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   War Childhood Museum

   A museum opened in 2017 built entirely out of objects donated by people who were children during the siege, each with the owner's own written account — a ballet shoe, a diary, a piece of shrapnel. It won the Council of Europe museum prize in 2018.

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   Vrelo Bosne

   A park at the foot of Mount Igman around the springs where the river Bosna rises, reached along an avenue of plane trees planted in 1888. It is the standard Sarajevo Sunday, on foot or in a horse cart.

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   Sarajevo Tunnel

   An eight-hundred-metre tunnel dug by hand between March and June 1993 under the airport runway, and the only route in or out of the besieged city for the next two years. Food, weapons, fuel and people went through it bent double; a stretch is open as a museum.

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    Vijećnica

    The city hall of 1896, built in a pseudo-Moorish style the Austrians thought suitable for Bosnia. It held the national library until the night of 25 August 1992, when Serb shelling burned it with about two million books inside; it was restored and reopened in 2014.

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   Baščaršija

   The old bazaar, laid out in the 1460s around a caravanserai, and still divided by trade — the coppersmiths' lane hammers all day. Most of what stands is post-1879 rebuilding, and the mix of Ottoman, Austrian and socialist frontages within two hundred metres is the point of the place.

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   Sebilj

   A wooden Ottoman drinking fountain in the middle of the bazaar square, first built in 1753, burnt in 1852 and rebuilt in 1891 a few metres from its original spot. It is surrounded by pigeons at all hours and is the standard photograph of Sarajevo.

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   Kazani pit killings

   The Kazani pit outside Sarajevo, where a number of Serb residents of the besieged city were killed and buried by a unit under Mušan Topalović during the siege in the Bosnian war.

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   Sarajevo Synagogue

   An Ashkenazi synagogue of 1902 on the south bank, and the only working synagogue left in Sarajevo — a city that before 1941 had a Jewish population of about ten thousand, mostly Sephardi, descended from families expelled from Spain in 1492.

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   Ali Pasha's Mosque

   A mosque of 1561 endowed by an Ottoman governor of Bosnia, in classical style with a single dome and a portico. It stands in the modern centre rather than the old bazaar, having survived the Austrian rebuilding of the district around it.

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   Bijela Tabija

   An old fortress on a hill at 667 metres overlooking the historic centre of Sarajevo. It is a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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   Clock Tower of Sarajevo

   A thirty-metre clock tower beside the Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque, the tallest of the twenty-one clock towers in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was declared a national monument in 2006 and still keeps lunar time for the prayer hours.

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   Old Jewish Cemetery, Sarajevo

   A Sephardi cemetery on the slopes of Trebević, in use from 1630 and the second largest Jewish cemetery in Europe after Prague's. It sat on a front line during the siege, was mined and shelled, and clearance work has continued for years.

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   Sarajevo Old Orthodox Church

   Orthodox church in Sarajevo, first recorded in 1539 and rebuilt after fires. Its floor lies below street level, as Ottoman rules kept non-Muslim churches from rising high.

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    Šeher-Ćehaja Bridge

    A bridge over the Miljacka in Sarajevo, its name taken from the Turkish word for the city warden. It is among the more notable of the thirteen bridges built in the city under Ottoman rule.

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