Thursday, May 7, 2009

Visegrad - Bosnia

Hooray, new unesco card and a new country :) My 1st card from Bosnia and it was sent by Vesna.

"The Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad, across the Drina River in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, was completed in 1577 AD by the Ottoman court architect Sinan on the order of the Grand Vizier Mehmed Paša Sokolović. It is characteristic of the apogee of Ottoman monumental architecture and civil engineering.
Three of its 11 arches were destroyed during World War I and five were damaged during World War II but were subsequently restored. During the Bosnian War the bridge was a place of a brutal killings of a large number of civilians during the Višegrad massacre in 1992." - in:
wikipedia

1 comment:

SLLiew said...

Wow.. I enjoyed viewing very much the Weimar UNESCO card with the matching stamp. Thanks for sharing. SL