Travnik

Travnik is a historic town in the Lašva River valley of central Bosnia, which served as the seat of the Ottoman viziers governing Bosnia for most of the eighteenth century. The Šarena Džamija, or Coloured Mosque, with its painted interior and exterior façade, is the most distinctive building in a town that also retains a medieval fortress on the hill above. The novelist Ivo Andrić, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature, was born near Travnik and used the town as the setting for his Bosnian Chronicle.