Sarajevo traditional residential area tour

Sarajevo traditional residential area tour

This tour gives travellers a sense of daily living in the compact, traditional Sarajevo neighbourhoods, a way of life which is fading as more and more residents move to modern buildings and lifestyles. Insights are offered about the cultural identity and demographic challenges Sarajevo and Bosnia are facing as old ways and worldviews shift or disappear. Also discussed are issues of faith within an environment of tolerance, understanding and mutual respect.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Bijela Tabija, Poddzebhana, Sarajevo 71000 Bosnia and Herzegovina

A historic landmark of this city. A good point to start the tour overlooking Sarajevo and delivering the basic story of how this town evolved and what was the role of this forth throughout the centuries.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Višegradska Kapija, Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The north gate of the Vratnik also known as the Gate of Sarajevo.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Memović, 71000, Ispod oraha, Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia and Herzegovina

What is the significance of bakeries in traditional life in Sarajevo and especially during Ramadan.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Dobrovoljno vatrogasno društvo Vratnik, Vratnik Mejdan 58, Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Interesting stories about the heroic efforts of this volunteering fire brigade in serving local citizens and helping Sarajevo Canton professional brigade fighting the fire and assisting the residents in everyday life challenges.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Klub UG Penzionera Vratnik, Vratnik Mejdan, Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia and Herzegovina

A museum-like old coffee and tea shop with unique homemade juniper juice. Feel the taste of life in this area as it used to be decades ago.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Bijela Džamija, Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ottoman time mosque but very well preserved and restored. The story about residential area mosques and their difference from so-called business area mosques.

Duration: 10 minutes

Pass By: Kasarna Safet Hadžić (Jajce Kasarna), Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Once a modern hospital built in Austria Hungarian time now is rubble and a great example of how devastated this town was during 1992-95 siege.

Stop At: Yellow Bastion, Jekovac, Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia and Herzegovina

One of the five fortresses which consisted of Vratnik town area walls and gates complex. Great view and a great story about the fast-breaking dinner announcement time canon blast.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: ˆehidsko mezarje Kovači, ˆirokac, Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnian 1992/95 war memorial. The story about the gravestone scriptures and its meaning. Visiting the old Ottoman time graveyard and understanding the shapes and messages of the gravestones from that time.

Duration: 15 minutes