Sarajevo Sights

  1. Eternal Flame

    At the western end of the city centre is the Eternal flame, which commemorates the sacrifices of WWII.

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  2. Latin Bridge

    Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie paused at the National Library (then the town hall) on that fateful day in 1914. Despite an earlier unsuccessful assassination attempt that day, they rode west along the riverside in an open car to the Latin Bridge. It was here that Gavrilo Princip stepped forward to fire his pistol, killing them both and sparking off war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia. Thanks to a series of European alliances, this escalated into WWI.

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  3. Morića Han

    Morića Han was a tavern when Sarajevo was a caravan stopover on the ancient trading route between East and West. Wicker chairs for coffee drinkers have now replaced plain benches for weary travellers and a carpet shop with waist-high stacks of rugs fills the former stables. The han (tavern) has been burnt down several times, with the latest reincarnation dating from the 1970s.

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  4. Sarajevo Roses

    Look for the infamous Sarajevo roses on the pavements in central Sarajevo. These are flower shape indentations where a shell has exploded and some have been symbolically filled in with red cement.

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