Mehmed Pasa Sokolovic Bridge added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List
The Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge has been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
Located in Visegrad, Eastern Bosnia, stretching over Drina River, this 11 arches bridge considered a masterpiece of Ottoman architecture, was built in 16th century and was a subject of Ivo Andric’s Nobel Prize-winning book The Bridge on the Drina (Na Drini Cuprija) , which described the building of the bridge and life in Bosnia in times of Ottoman Empire.
The UNESCO’s World Heritage List includes 851 sites that are conisdered worth preserving for their cultural or natural value. Another UNESCO’s site in Bosnia and Herzegovina is Mostar’s Old Bridge (Mostarski Stari Most)
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