Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar

The stone arc of Stari Most leapt the Neretva for four centuries, emblem of an Ottoman frontier town where mosques, Turkish houses and later Austro-Hungarian streets grew side by side. Shelling destroyed the Old Bridge in 1993 along with much of historic Mostar; its faithful reconstruction, completed in 2004 with international and UNESCO support, made the site a symbol of reconciliation. The Old Bridge area of Mostar was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2005.