{"id":298,"date":"2017-03-13T11:44:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T11:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egipatskakuca.com\/discoverbih\/?p=298"},"modified":"2017-03-20T02:03:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T02:03:41","slug":"mostar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egipatskakuca.com\/discoverbih\/2017\/03\/13\/mostar\/","title":{"rendered":"Mostar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Mostar<\/b> is a city and municipality in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Inhabited by 105,797 people, it is the most important city in the Herzegovina region, its cultural capital, and the center of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation. Mostar is situated on the Neretva River and is the fifth-largest city in the country. Mostar was named after the bridge keepers (<i>mostari<\/i>) who in the medieval times guarded the Stari Most (Old Bridge) over the Neretva. The Old Bridge, built by the Ottomans in the 16th century, is one of Bosnia and Herzegovina&#8217;s most recognizable landmarks, and is considered one of the most exemplary pieces of Islamic architecture in the Balkans<\/p>\n<p>To See in Mostar :<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"thumbimage alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wikitravel.org\/upload\/shared\/\/thumb\/b\/bd\/Mostar_old_bridge.jpg\/250px-Mostar_old_bridge.jpg\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wikitravel.org\/upload\/shared\/\/thumb\/b\/bd\/Mostar_old_bridge.jpg\/375px-Mostar_old_bridge.jpg 1.5x, http:\/\/wikitravel.org\/upload\/shared\/\/thumb\/b\/bd\/Mostar_old_bridge.jpg\/500px-Mostar_old_bridge.jpg 2x\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"185\" data-file-width=\"2220\" data-file-height=\"2037\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"Stari_Most_-_The_Old_Bridge\" class=\"vcard\"><span class=\"fn org\">Stari Most &#8211; The Old Bridge<\/span>. <span class=\"description\">Originally built by the Turks in 1566, it was destroyed in 1993, but rebuilt in 2004.<br \/>\nThe bridge is the highlight of Mostar and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The bridge is 21m high and you will frequently see members of the Mostar Diving Club dive off the bridge. It is customary to give the divers a few KMs after they make the jump.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"Old_Bridge_Museum\" class=\"vcard\"><span class=\"fn org\">Old Bridge Museum<\/span>, (<span class=\"note directions\">Next to the bridge<\/span>). <span class=\"description\">Includes exhibits on the history of the bridge, a panoramic view from the top, and entrance into the excavations below, along with a video detailing the reconstruction of the bridge. <\/span> <span class=\"price\">Entry: 5 KM<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"thumbimage alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wikitravel.org\/upload\/en\/thumb\/f\/f1\/Muslibegovic_House.JPG\/300px-Muslibegovic_House.JPG\" srcset=\"\/upload\/en\/thumb\/f\/f1\/Muslibegovic_House.JPG\/450px-Muslibegovic_House.JPG 1.5x, \/upload\/en\/f\/f1\/Muslibegovic_House.JPG 2x\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"153\" data-file-width=\"500\" data-file-height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"thumbcaption\">\u00a0\u00a0<span class=\"fn org\">Muslibegovica House<\/span>, (<span class=\"note directions\">located near the Karadoz &#8211; Bey\u2019s Mosque<\/span>), . <span class=\"hours\">Open for visitors 15 April \u2013 15 October from 10AM-6PM<\/span>. <span class=\"description\">Constructed 300 years ago, it is considered the most beautiful house from Ottoman period in the Balkans. The house is comprised of separate quarters for women (women\u2019s courtyard\u2013 haremluk), and men (men\u2019s courtyard \u2013 selamluk. Unlike earlier architectural styles, this house resembled a four-storey house built around the centre. Double-arched entrance with the central pillar reveals Mediterranean influence. The house preserved authentic monumental structure,\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"History_Museum_of_Herzegovina\" class=\"vcard\"><span class=\"description\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"thumbimage alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wikitravel.org\/upload\/en\/thumb\/a\/a9\/National_Monument_Muslibegovic_House.jpg\/300px-National_Monument_Muslibegovic_House.jpg\" srcset=\"\/upload\/en\/thumb\/a\/a9\/National_Monument_Muslibegovic_House.jpg\/450px-National_Monument_Muslibegovic_House.jpg 1.5x, \/upload\/en\/a\/a9\/National_Monument_Muslibegovic_House.jpg 2x\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"152\" data-file-width=\"500\" data-file-height=\"353\" \/>items and documents providing an insight into the life of a wealthy bey family from the time. In addition to museum exhibition, visitors are invited to take traditional beverages or cookies, or spend a night in this authentic surrounding. Entry 4 KM &#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"fn org\">History Museum of Herzegovina<\/span>. <span class=\"hours\">Open 8-16. Closed Mondays.<\/span>. Has a small collection of photographs from various phases of Mostar history, including a small exhibit on a native son who appeared to have served as Tito&#8217;s former Foreign Minister for a space. Also shows an excellent video on the recent history of the Old Bridge. <span class=\"price\">KM 5<\/span>. \u00a0edit<\/span> <span class=\"price\">KM 5<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"Koski_Mehmed_Pasina_Dzamija_Koski_Mehmed_Pasha_Mosque\" class=\"vcard\"><span class=\"fn org\">Koski Mehmed Pasina Dzamija (Koski Mehmed Pasha Mosque)<\/span>, (<span class=\"note directions\">Old town<\/span>). <span class=\"description\">Small but simply pretty Ottoman mosque built in 1618. Climb to the minaret to see a great view over the town.<\/span> <span class=\"price\">Entry: 3 KM, with minaret access: 5 KM<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"Karadozbegova_Dzamija_Karadjoz-Bey_Mosque\" class=\"vcard\"><span class=\"fn org\">Karadozbegova Dzamija (Karadjoz-Bey Mosque)<\/span>, (<span class=\"note directions\">Old town.<\/span>). <span class=\"description\">A modest Ottoman mosque built in 1557.<\/span> <span class=\"price\">Entry: 3 KM, with minaret access: 5 KM<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"Cemetery\" class=\"vcard\"><span class=\"fn org\">Cemetery<\/span>, (<span class=\"note directions\">next to Karadjoz\/Bey Mosque in the Old town<\/span>). <span class=\"description\">A park turned into a cemetery in 1993 when the dead needed a place to be buried and other cemeteries were inaccessible due to the war.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"Biscevica_House\" class=\"vcard\"><span class=\"fn org\">Biscevica House<\/span>, <span class=\"adr\"><span class=\"street-address\">Biscevica Street<\/span><\/span>. <span class=\"description\">An Ottoman house, where you only can see the few rooms in upstairs. <\/span> <span class=\"price\">4 KM<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"Hum_Large_Cross_on_Hill\" class=\"vcard\"><span class=\"fn org\">Hum (Large Cross on Hill)<\/span>, (<span class=\"note directions\">Go to west of town with outgoing road and go up switchbacks to paved path to top<\/span>). <span class=\"hours\">3<\/span>. <span class=\"description\">Long, boring hike along a busy road with no shoulder (or easy drive, Zita of hostel Nina offered to do it for 5\u20ac) leads to full view of Mostar sans old bridge and some of the southern part of town (a bit of a downward scramble through loose rock and potentially unexploded mines leads to that). Head west from the cathedral, then cut left at the white mosque. Follow that to a Muslim cemetery then up through a catholic cemetery to the inevitable switchbacks. Mine warnings are all over and no joke, there looked to be a somewhat recently triggered mine at the summit (slightly above cross just outside of what looked to be a dug-in fortification). Appreciation of view limited by history of use as sniper\/artillery post during independence war and knowledge that construction of this massive religious icon came soon after end of conflict<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"mod\" data-md=\"50\" data-hveid=\"135\" data-ved=\"0ahUKEwi_luq-rtPSAhVJaxQKHQsKDtwQkCkIhwEoATAN\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mod\" data-md=\"1003\" data-hveid=\"144\" data-ved=\"0ahUKEwi_luq-rtPSAhVJaxQKHQsKDtwQkCkIkAEoBTAR\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mostar is a city and municipality in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Inhabited by 105,797 people, it is the most important city in the Herzegovina region, its cultural capital, and the center of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation. Mostar is situated on the Neretva River and is the fifth-largest city in the country. Mostar was named after the bridge keepers (mostari) who in the medieval times guarded the Stari Most (Old Bridge) over the Neretva. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egipatskakuca.com\/discoverbih\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egipatskakuca.com\/discoverbih\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egipatskakuca.com\/discoverbih\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egipatskakuca.com\/discoverbih\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egipatskakuca.com\/discoverbih\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egipatskakuca.com\/discoverbih\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/egipatskakuca.com\/discoverbih\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egipatskakuca.com\/discoverbih\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egipatskakuca.com\/discoverbih\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egipatskakuca.com\/discoverbih\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egipatskakuca.com\/discoverbih\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}