Bosnia Travel Guide: Welcome to www.bosniatravel.net, a web site dedicated to travellers and visitors to Bosnia. This is a comprehensive on-line travel guide to Bosnia with all the details and information about Bosnia visitor needs to know. This guide includes pages on Bosnia art and culture, its museums, architecture and natural beauties, as well as info about hotels in Bosnia , holiday accommodations in Bosnia and transport / travel to Bosnia . There is a section on Bosnia maps too - a very important tool for any traveller...Enjoy browsing!
In times of conflict, buildings are inevitably damaged or destroyed. But there has always been another war against architecture: the destruction of the built artefacts of a people or nation as a means of cultural cleansing or division. In this war, architecture takes on a totemic quality: a mosque is not simply a mosque but represents the presence of a community. Read the rest of this entry »
British tour operators are including Bosnia-Herzegovina as a destination in their 2006 holiday brochures as Paddy Ashdown’s kick-start to international tourism to the country begins to bear fruit. Read the rest of this entry »
SmarterTravel.com, a comprehensive online travel resource, released a report that offers insight into the next generation of “must-visit” cities across the pond.
For the past several years, Europe, particularly London, Paris and Rome, has become less and less affordable for travelers, while the “undiscovered” cities, like Prague and Budapest, are becoming cluttered with tourists. Read the rest of this entry »
The fact that Sarajevo has been ranked 43rd among 200 cities as one of the most interesting, most attractive, most challenging and pleasant cities to live in represents an exceptional honour are recognition both to the City of Sarajevo and me as the Mayor, Sarajevo Mayor Semiha Borovac said on Tuesday commenting on reports that Lonely Planet has ranked Sarajevo as the 43 best city in the world. Read the rest of this entry »
After a turbulent past, Sarajevo is being recognised as a gritty, confounding and magical city:
The taxi stops at the sign for the de-mining project. Thirteen centimetres of fresh snow obscure the ground. Fikret, my Bosnian guide, leads me past blown-out houses, trenches in the woods, splintered bunkers, a Habsburg-built tower from the 19th century reduced to a ruin by war. Read the rest of this entry »
