Bosnia Travel

CondeNast Traveler has published good article about contemporary Sarajevo – ‘the Bosnian capital that is being transformed into one of the most dynamic small cities on the Continent’

In article, titled ‘ Landscape After Battle’ Joshua Hammer, writes about his travels to Bosnia:

The Sunday brunch is a well-practiced ritual these days in the Old Town of Sarajevo. On a dazzling morning, my friend Senad Slatina is escorting me to his favorite weekend restaurant through a throng of pedestrians on the main promenade. Australian backpackers, Gypsy beggars, Islamic women swathed in head scarves, uniformed European Union troops, and young, well-dressed, secular Bosnian Muslims wander past turreted and domed European edifices from the nineteenth century. Beyond the cluster of ice-cream shops known as Sweet Corner, the street narrows to a cobblestoned passageway barely twelve feet wide. Abruptly we pass from a slice of Hapsburg Vienna into the Ottoman Empire: teetering, red-tile-roofed houses; brassware makers; Turkish coffee stalls; stone minarets and mosques. Slatina leads the way to the Asdz bakery, a hole-in-the-wall. Minutes later, the specialty arrives on our outdoor table: two cottage cheese–stuffed pastries called sirnica, each as wide as a small pizza, baked underneath a charcoal-topped lid and served piping hot…

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