Bosnia and Herzegovina
About Sarajevo
Few cities pack as much history into so small a space as Sarajevo. Within a few hundred metres the Ottoman bazaar of Baščaršija, with its coppersmiths and domed mosques, gives way to grand Austro-Hungarian boulevards, and a plaque marks the corner where the shot that began the First World War was fired.
It is a city that has suffered — the hills that make it beautiful are the same ones from which it was besieged for nearly four years in the 1990s, and the scars and 'Sarajevo roses' are still there to read — yet it remains warm, funny and astonishingly alive.
Mosque, church and synagogue stand within sight of one another, and the call to prayer mixes with church bells over rooftops hemmed in by Olympic peaks.
Drink endless tiny cups of Bosnian coffee, devour cevapi and flaky burek in the old town, and let the city's bittersweet soul work on you.
Get to Sarajevo
Round trip from Prague, any dates in November 2026.
Day trips from Sarajevo
- Half day
Vrelo Bosne
~20 min
, ~1 h 
and a walkA cool, leafy park at the foot of Mount Igman where the river Bosna gushes from dozens of springs into a maze of pools and islets, reached by a long avenue best ridden in a horse-drawn cart.
- Half day
Jahorina & Bjelašnica
~30–45 minThe mountains that hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics, now Bosnia's main ski and hiking resorts — pine forests, mountain villages and sweeping ridge walks barely half an hour above the city.
- Day trip
Mostar
~2 h
Herzegovina's jewel — the soaring single-arch Stari Most leaps the emerald Neretva between minarets and stone houses, with daring local divers plunging from its parapet all summer. A UNESCO icon and the classic day out from Sarajevo.
About Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ottoman bridges and green rivers
Minarets and Habsburg facades on the same street, rafting rivers in the hills, and a recent history locals will tell you about plainly if you ask.
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