A country · 81 places · 2 regions

Bosnia and Herzegovina, all of it.

81 curated places across 2 regions — photographed, mapped, and noted with the season each is best in.

Mostar · via Wikimedia Commons

Bosnia and Herzegovina reads below in 2 chapters — Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska — in any order you like.

Chapter I · Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina · 51 places

Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mostar is the principal city of Herzegovina, bisected by the Neretva River and known above all for the Stari Most, the reconstructed sixteenth-century Ottoman stone arch bridge whose single span across the river gave the city its name. The bridge was destroyed during the 1990s war and rebuilt in 2004 using the original Ottoman techniques and stone, earning UNESCO recognition. The cobbled bazaar quarter of Kujundžiluk on the west bank preserves a dense concentration of Ottoman-period craft workshops, mosques, and caravanserais.

Mostar

Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

✦ April to October · $

Počitelj

Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

✦ April to October · $

Jajce

Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

✦ April to October · $

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Sutjeska National Park, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Chapter II · Republika Srpska · 13 places

Republika Srpska

Sutjeska National Park in southeastern Bosnia protects one of the last primeval forests in Europe, the Perućica virgin forest reserve, where beech and fir trees of extraordinary age and size have never been logged. The park also encompasses the Sutjeska and Hrčavka rivers, whose deep gorges offer demanding hiking routes through remote terrain. Maglić, on the Bosnian-Montenegrin border within the park, is the highest mountain in Bosnia at 2,386 metres.

✦ June to September · $

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