Cultural Heritage
Mehmed Pasha Sokolović Bridge: A Magnet for Tourists Visiting Višegrad
On the banks of the deep blue-green Drina River in Višegrad stands one of the region’s greatest historical and cultural monuments – the world-famous Mehmed Pasha Sokolović Bridge. Known through Ivo Andrić’s novel and built as an endowment of the Grand Vizier, the bridge was constructed between 1571 and 1577 under the supervision of Kodža Mimar Sinan, the most renowned Ottoman architect of his time.
Ovčiji Brod: The Bridge Older Than the Višegrad Bridge, Yet Almost Unknown
Across the so-called "Sheep's Ford" on the Zalomka River, flocks of sheep have long been herded from lower Herzegovina up into upper Herzegovina each spring, toward Treskavica, Zelengora, and Morine, for pasture - and back again each autumn.
