Mostar is not what I expected. Bosnia is not what I expected. After several weeks travelling through Slovenia and Croatia, I found the people of Bosnia to be the friendliest, and the food to be the ...

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I held my breath, anxious with excitement. Alongside a few other wide-eyed spectators, I craned my neck to get a solid view of the dizzying plunge from the Stari Most bridge’s arch into the Neretva ...

On November 9, 1993, one of Bosnia-Herzegovina's cultural treasures became a casualty of war. The Old Bridge in Mostar, built in 1566 during the Ottoman Empire, was destroyed by shells fired by ...

The Orthodox cathedral of the Holy Trinity is still not ready for Christmas mass. But its story and the quest to bring it back is one of resilience. Mostar’s rich skyline, with mosques and Catholic ...

In the eight years since the Dayton peace agreement put an end to a three-sided war in Bosnia, the country has become a kind of laboratory for nation building. Americans and Europeans have tried to ...

The historic town of Mostar, spanning a deep valley of the Neretva River, developed in the 15th and 16th centuries as an Ottoman frontier town and during the Austro-Hungarian period in the 19th and ...

Mostar, a historic city in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina, is garnering global attention for something quite different from its rich past: its street art. Street Art Cities, a platform dedicated to ...

In a city long an emblem for the bigotry and apartheid blighting Bosnia, Milan Milesovic this week struck a small blow for decency and common sense. On Sunday evening, the ambulance driver from the ...

A spat between the city's two ethno-nationalist parties - one Croat, one Bosniak - has created a political stalemate since 2008. The city's residents are paying the price. Mostar is the town everyone ...