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Photo Contest Finalist
BRIDGE OF MOSTAR
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(((~~ TRAVEL & PLACE ~~)))
Image taken in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2004.
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 1990 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.
Keywords: bridge, mostar, mountain, green, water, trees, bridge of mostar,
Uploaded on 5/25/2009 11:52:58 PM
Made with Nikon Coolpix 8800 Digital Camera
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