The city of Mostar lies at a crossroads of cultures: just inland from the Adriatic coast, in the southern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Mostar — where Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats, and Muslim ...

The city of Mostar lies at a crossroads of cultures: just inland from the Adriatic coast, in the southern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina. In Mostar, Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats, and Muslim Bosniaks ...

For Rick Steves, it’s chilling to think that the city’s friendly people were killing each other not so long ago. The Bosnian city of Mostar lies at a crossroads of cultures: just inland from the ...

The southern town of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina celebrated the 15th anniversary of the reconstruction of its famous Old Bridge, which was blown up by Bosnian Croat forces during the war. This ...

BIRN’s series about women photographers documenting the Bosnian war profiles Isabella Balena, whose pictures captured the impact of the fighting that divided and devastated the picturesque city of ...

The scars of war remain around every corner in this tranquil river valley town, though they can be easy to miss amid the sea of camera-carrying tourists. The European waiter who says he hasn't been on ...

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 ...

For more than four centuries, the Old Bridge in Mostar reigned as the Bosnian city's defining landmark. A masterpiece of Ottoman architecture commissioned in 1566 by Suleiman the Magnificent, the ...

A symbol of Bosnia's devastation in the 1990s war, Mostar's iconic Ottoman-era bridge was later rebuilt to its former glory. But residents of the southern city remain sharply segregated by ethnicity.

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 ...