Mostar is a beautiful city, and the biggest attraction is the old bridge that has already been demolished and rebuilt. They jump off it every summer. I was in spring in mostar when the weather was bad so I couldn't attend that jumping event from the bridge. Too bad I didn't stay but just stopped by to visit the city.
Although small in size, big in songs. The verses were composed, written and sung by the greats of his time, Aleksa Santic, Jovan Ducic, Pero Zubac, Safet Isovic, Himzo Polovina and so on.
It was a strategic place on the road from Dubrovnik to Sarajevo and to Istanbul from ancient times. He succeeded in shaping the defiant Neretva and bridged it first with a wooden and then a stone bridge.
His Old White Stone Bridge was one of the proud symbols of the most beautiful land in the Balkans, then a witness and victim of its collapse. Today it is again an indispensable point on the European map of tourism. Photogenic and fairy-tale, the story of Mostar begins with Santic's poem:
Beauties! Along the river, like a white swan,
Mostar lies and full of sun, adidar,
It blinks, and strives with the spear of the minaret,
As if I wanted to take off.
The river is clean,
Filled with emeralds, it travels and glitters,
And the order of close houses is reflected in it.
Next to the Neretva River, below, it is scattered;
Old Lantern full of lanterns flashes an eye,
He sleeps. moonlight covered it with canvas.
With about 80,000 inhabitants, Mostar has always been the heart of Herzegovina. It is one of the four official cities of BiH and the seat of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton. It developed in the canyon of the Neretva River, around the bridges whose guards it is named after. The centerpiece belongs to the Old Town and the stone town, which are on the UNESCO list of cultural heritage. It is bounded by the Velez and Prenj mountains, and the most famous hills around the city basin are: Hum, Brnovo Brdo, Galac, Orlovac, Planinica and Fortica. Beside the Neretva River, the Radobolja River flows through Mostar.