Today has been the 28th anniversary of the destruction of the Old Bridge in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The bridge was reconstructed 11 years later in 2004 and in 2005 the bridge was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, in recognition of its strong symbolic value.
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Stunning ❤️
Croatian military organization took it down, citing it as a legitimate militaristic target. Just like they did with multiple mosques.
Fun fact: they blew up Old Bridge to make place for the Even Older Bridge.
Wow! I have never seen this before!
Going to be honest for the first line I thought this was “another daily dose of german atrocities in WW2” on r/europe and I was trying to remember really hard why the nazis blew up a bridge in Bosnia-Herzogovina where there was only asymetric partisan warfare so blowing bridges makes little sense. But it was from the yugoslav civil war.
Nice to see something “nice” for ones 🙂
The original bridge was built in 1566, if anyone is curious.
Nice bridge, like most of them in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
I just visited here last month! It was even more beautiful than I expected. Worth the drive, even though our car was rear-ended at the border crossing 😭
Beautiful, destroying such a thing is unpardonable
Is there going to be a war again? I keep hearing scary news that some ultranationalists are stirring up disorder in order to start a war every day now.
Edit: Oh god, it seems I have activated the Serbian brigades who love celebrating violence, national purity and genocide. Don’t bother reading anything below.
Hope everything resolves peacefully nowdays. Bosnia is beautiful, nice people on all 3 sides 👍
A place ever single human should visit to help them reconsider their lives and what is important.
Don’t forget.
Destroying the bridge was just BS even with a great “tactical purpose” Praljak saw in it (which was probably BS because he was utterly incompetent.)
Dude should have swallowed the poison for destroying world heritage alone.
Walking through mostar is a strange experience as my tour guide for half the stuff had to say” what used to be here was …” And what will hopefully be rebuilt here will be” “and walking through the “old town” knowing that as a 19 year old I was older than the entire old town is just strange but they’ve done a fantastic job in restoring most parts and the atmosphere in parts is great would love to go back
That second picture reminds me a lot of the opening scenes of the Witcher 3 expansion Blood and Wine. You know.. with the floating corpses near the beach