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Personal – Old Bridge

Posted by Franjo Ivanković on Friday, January 6th, 2012

Isn’t it beautiful? I mean, the Old Bridge in Mostar, such a historical beauty, saw a lot, went through a lot, but it’s still there, today. And it is as beautiful as it ever was. I love this bridge personally because it represents some symbolic to divided community as the one I live in. And it shows that we can overcome the differences and stand together as unite. But the question is what’s the background story of this beautiful bridge?

Well you’re looking at really old bridge that dates back to 16th century, the Ottoman empire period. It crosses river of Neretva. The bridge was untouched for over 4 centuries until the civil war, when it was tore down. Over a decade later, it was rebuilt and open for the tourists and citizens. Ever since it is great attraction for tourists. Each year a lot of tourists that arrive to Međugorje, due to the religion tourism, also visit Mostar and the famous Old Bridge. But actually, it’s biggest fans are Turks who visit it throughout entire year. Fun thing is that one Turkish soap opera had scenes shot on the Old Bridge. All in all, it’s really famous and one nice peace of art, I would say.

There is also one more fun thing about the Old Bridge, and that are the jumps. Since I’m very lazy to write about that, I’ll just give you one nice quote I found on Wikipedia:

Others writing about old bridge:

• MIT: Bridging the divide
• UNESCO World Heritage Centre: Old Bridge area of the Old City of Mostar

About Franjo Ivanković

Franjo is student of United World College in Mostar. He started this web site purely to play with CSS and HTML, but now using WordPress, he started a personal blog. In case you want to know more about this author, please visit his About me page. If you like his work, then please feel free to share the link or comment! Share the love:

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