Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar (UNESCO/NHK)
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 20th centuries. Mostar has long been known for its old Turkish houses and Old Bridge, Stari Most, after which it is named. In the 1990s conflict, however, most of the historic town and the Old Bridge, designed by the renowned architect Sinan, was ...
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Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar
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 20th centuries. Mostar has long been known for its old Turkish houses and Old Bridge, Stari Most, after which it is named. In the 1990s conflict, however, most of the historic town and the Old Bridge, designed by the renowned architect Sinan, was destroyed. The Old Bridge was recently rebuilt and many of the edifices in the Old Town have been restored or rebuilt with the contribution of an international scientific committee established by UNESCO. The Old Bridge area, with its pre-Ottoman, eastern Ottoman, Mediterranean and western European architectural features, is an outstanding example of a multicultural urban settlement. The reconstructed Old Bridge and Old City of Mostar is a symbol of reconciliation, international co-operation and of the coexistence of diverse cultural, ethnic and religious communities.
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 20th centuries. Mostar has long been known for its old Turkish houses and Old Bridge, Stari Most, after which it is named. In the 1990s conflict, however, most of the historic town and the Old Bridge, designed by the renowned architect Sinan, was destroyed. The Old Bridge was recently rebuilt and many of the edifices in the Old Town have been restored or rebuilt with the contribution of an international scientific committee established by UNESCO. The Old Bridge area, with its pre-Ottoman, eastern Ottoman, Mediterranean and western European architectural features, is an outstanding example of a multicultural urban settlement. The reconstructed Old Bridge and Old City of Mostar is a symbol of reconciliation, international co-operation and of the coexistence of diverse cultural, ethnic and religious communities.
Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar, Bosnia. A young man jumping to river. 4K
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Mostar - The Old City - Bosnia - Herzegovina
The charming old city of Mostar with its narrow cobbled streets and featuring the famous old bridge, built in the 16th century by the Ottomans, Destroyed in the war of 1993 and rebuilt in 2003-2004 and had a grand opening in July 2004.
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Mostar is situated on the Neretva River and is the fifth-largest city in the country. Mostar was named after the bridge keepers (natively: mostari) 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's most recognizable landmarks, and is considered one of the most exemplary pieces of Islamic architecture in the Balkans
BOSNIAN WAR - Fall of the Old Bridge in Mostar (09.11.1993.)
The Old Bridge stood for 427 years, until it was destroyed on 9 November 1993 during the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After its destruction a temporary cable bridge was erected in its place.
Newspapers based in Sarajevo reported that more than 60 shells hit the bridge before it collapsed. After the destruction of the Stari Most, a spokesman for the Croats admitted that they deliberately destroyed it, claiming that it was of strategic importance.Academics have argued that the bridge held little strategic value and that its shelling was an example of deliberate cultural property destruction. Andras Riedlmayer terms the destruction an act of killing memory, in which evidence of a shared cultural heritage and peaceful co-existence were deliberately destroyed.
Both sides of the city remained linked until bridge´s reconstruction thanks to the Spanish military engineers assigned to UN UNPROFOR mission.
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Take a tour of Old Bridge of Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina -- part of the World's Greatest Attractions series by GeoBeats.
The Stari Most, or Old Bridge, provides a beautiful centerpiece to the town of Mostar.
The bridge was built in 16th century and comprised the world's widest arch at the time.
There is a longstanding tradition of local young men diving from the bridge's peak.
Sadly, the original bridge was destroyed in the Bosnian War and has been reconstructed.
Two towers, the bridge keepers, watch over the bridge from either side of its length.
The Old Bridge offers excellent views of the beautiful blue waters of the Neretva River.
The historic town of Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and its Old Bridge
This is the panoramic view of Mostar and its famous bridge, Stari Most (Old Bridge) from Koski Mehmed-Pasha Mosque's Minaret. Mimar Hayruddin, a student of Mimar Sinan, the Ottoman architect built this bridge over the span of 9 years. It was completed in 1566. It was destroyed during the War in 1993, but rebuilt in the same exact way possible later. It is listed as the UNESCO World heritage site.
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Old Bridge (Stari Most) in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Old Bridge (Stari Most) in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Stari Most (literally, Old Bridge) is a rebuilt 16th-century Ottoman bridge in the city of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina that crosses the river Neretva and connects the two parts of the city. The Old Bridge stood for 427 years, until it was destroyed on 9 November 1993 by Croat military forces during the Croat–Bosniak War. Subsequently, a project was set in motion to reconstruct it; the rebuilt bridge opened on 23 July 2004.
The bridge is considered an exemplary piece of Balkan Islamic architecture. It was designed by Mimar Hayruddin, a student and apprentice of architect Mimar Sinan who built many of the key Sultan’s buildings in Istanbul and around the empire.
The bridge spans the Neretva river in the old town of Mostar, the city to which it gave the name. The city is the fifth-largest in the country; it is the center of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the unofficial capital of Herzegovina. The Stari Most is hump-backed, 4 metres wide and 30 metres long, and dominates the river from a height of 24 m. Two fortified towers protect it: the Halebija tower on the northeast and the Tara tower on the southwest, called the bridge keepers .
Instead of foundations, the bridge has abutments of limestone linked to wing walls along the waterside cliffs. Measuring from the summer water level of 40.05 m, abutments are erected to a height of 6.53 metres, from which the arch springs to its high point. The start of the arch is emphasized by a molding 0.32 metres in height. The rise of the arch is 12.02 metres.
The original bridge was commissioned by Suleiman the Magnificent in 1557 to replace an older wooden suspension bridge of dubious stability. Construction began in 1557 and took nine years: according to the inscription the bridge was completed in 974 AH, corresponding to the period between 19 July 1566 and 7 July 1567. Tour directors used to state that the bridge was held together with metal pins and mortar made from the protein of egg whites. Little is known of the building of the bridge, and all that has been preserved in writing are memories and legends and the name of the builder, Mimar Hayruddin, a student of Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan. Charged under pain of death to construct a bridge of such unprecedented dimensions, Hayruddin reportedly prepared for his own funeral on the day the scaffolding was finally removed from the completed structure. Upon its completion it was the widest man-made arch in the world.
Original Stari Most photographed in the 1970s.
According to the 17th century Turkish traveler Evliya Çelebi, the name Mostar itself means bridge-keeper. As Mostar's economic and administrative importance grew with the growing presence of Ottoman rule, the precarious wooden suspension bridge over the Neretva gorge required replacement. The old bridge on the river ...was made of wood and hung on chains, wrote the Ottoman geographer Katip Çelebi, and it ...swayed so much that people crossing it did so in mortal fear. In 1566, Mimar Hayruddin designed the bridge, which was said to have cost 300,000 Drams (silver coins) to build. The two-year construction project was supervised by Karagoz Mehmet Bey, Sultan Suleiman's son-in-law and the patron of Mostar's most important mosque complex, the Hadzi Mehmed Karadzozbeg Mosque.
The bridge, 28 meters long and 20 meters high, quickly became a wonder in its own time. The traveler Evliya Çelebi wrote in the 17th century that: the bridge is like a rainbow arch soaring up to the skies, extending from one cliff to the other. ...I, a poor and miserable slave of Allah, have passed through 16 countries, but I have never seen such a high bridge. It is thrown from rock to rock as high as the sky.
The Old Bridge was destroyed on 9 November 1993 during the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After its destruction a temporary cable bridge was erected in its place.
Newspapers based in Sarajevo reported that more than 60 shells hit the bridge before it collapsed. Croatian General Slobodan Praljak argues in his document How the Old Bridge Was Destroyed that there was an explosive charge or mine placed at the center of the bridge underneath and detonated remotely in addition to the shelling that caused the collapse. Most historians disagree and believe his research was trying to absolve his men and himself from crimes committed during the war. He has since committed suicide by drinking poison after being convicted of war crimes.
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BOSNIA: MOSTAR: WORKS STARTS ON RECONSTRUCTING OLD CITY
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As the presidents of Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia gather in Paris to formally sign the Bosnian peace agreement, people are trying to rebuild their homes, towns and cities.
The Bosnian city of Mostar is being rebuilt after the bitter war destroyed buildings and even its famous bridge.
Mostar has seen some of the fiercest fighting in the war, leaving parts of it more damaged than the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo.
Mostar is one of Bosnia's most ethnically divided cities and the war between Bosnians and Croats has left parts of the city in ruins.
East Mostar, which is the Muslim sector, suffered the worst of the damage, with some buildings completely gutted.
Work has now started on reconstructing the old city.
On the frontline, where only skeletons of buildings are left, builders are at work seven days a week.
Young people are also rebuilding their lives.
Sixteen year-old Adnan Avdic has lived in Mostar since his family fled Banja Luka in 1992.
His father died later the same year whilst fighting in Mostar.
Now Adnan talks about his hope for peace, which is due to be cemented in Paris.
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We don't want to listen anymore to grenades and shooting, you know. It's very difficult when you stand here and the man next to you has been killed, you know. It's a very difficult experience, you know, psychologically. But we hope that peace will come soon.
SUPER CAPTION: Adnan Avdic, Bosnian Teenager
Adnan has found new enthusiasm for life at Mostar's local dance group.
He walks to rehearsals across the Tito bridge, only recently opened for free movement without a special pass.
Tito bridge is the link between the East and West of the city, following the destruction of the Old Bridge of Mostar.
The dance group, Camarad, means everything to Adnan and his friends.
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When you come there, you forget the war, you make fun, you kid, make jokes - you know - dance, you know. Everything is there, you know. Life is there, you know.
SUPER CAPTION: Adnan Avdic, Bosnian Teenager
There are about a hundred members of the Camarad group, performing dances about Bosnia in traditional costumes.
Adi joined two months ago and is looking forward to performing with the group in Sarajevo on Friday.
Camarad has kept going throughout the war, rehearsing several times a week in the basement of a building right on the frontline.
On occasions when the fighting was too fierce to get there, the group would meet at another place in the city - not wishing to miss out on their dancing.
Charity worker, Jonathan House, says locally-initiated projects like Camarad are the most important way to help heal the scars of war.
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I think when you look at situations like Camarad, it's very hopeful, very optimistic because people are rebuilding both emotionally and physically and it's amazing how quickly life is getting back to normal - as much as it can.
SUPER CAPTION: Jonathan House, Field Officer, War Child (charity)
Construction work can patch up Mostar's buildings.
But the young people are showing they have the spirit to build a peaceful future.
However, both are likely to take time.
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The Old Bridge Mostar 2017
Stari Most (literally, Old Bridge) is a 16th-century Ottoman bridge in the city of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina that crosses the river Neretva and connects the two parts of the city. The Old Bridge stood for 427 years, until it was destroyed on 9 November 1993 by Croat military forces during the Croat–Bosniak War. Subsequently, a project was set in motion to reconstruct it, and the rebuilt bridge opened on 23 July 2004.
One of the country's most recognizable landmarks, it is considered an exemplary piece of Balkan Islamic architecture. It was designed by Mimar Hayruddin, a student and apprentice of the famous architect Mimar Sinan
Stari Most diving is a traditional annual competition in diving organized every year in mid summer (end of July). It has been done 477 times as of 2013. It is traditional for the young men of the town to leap from the bridge into the Neretva. As the Neretva is very cold, this is a very risky feat and only the most skilled and best trained divers will attempt it. In 1968 a formal diving competition was inaugurated and held every summer. The first person to jump from the bridge since it was re-opened was Enej Kelecija
Since 2015, Stari Most has been a tour stop in the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series.
Old Bridge Mostar - Bosnia and Herzegovina
The old bridge Mostar is the main tourist attraction in this beautiful city called Mostar, located in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The old bridge Mostar was built between 1557 and 1566. Request for this bridge was made by Sulejman Veličastni, and the person who built it was Mimar Hajrudin, one of the most talented architects during the Ottoman Empire.
This bridge was demolished in 1993 in a civil war. The Mostar bridge was renovated in 2004.
Mostar - Bosnia and Herzegovina is visited by over a million and a half tourists every year from around the world. If you have looked at my video, you definitely agree with me that the old bridge in Mostar and its surroundings is a true tourist pearl.
The Old Bridge, Mostar - Execution 09.11.1993
The Old Bridge, symbol of the city of Mostar, recognized and protected by UNESCO as a World Heritage site, was deliberately and monstrously destroyed Nov. 9, 1993, by the hand of Croatian Army (HVO).
The Museum of Old Bridge in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Old Bridge is the most magnificent monument in Mostar and it has become the worldwide known symbol of Mostar but that is not all that this city has to offer.
Each week we will bring you best museums you should visit during your stay in Mostar.
Today the Museum of Old Bridge in Mostar is located in the Tara tower, on the left side of the Old Bridge.
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