The first direct flights for a decade will put Bosnia’s capital on our map, says Tina Walsh
Despite a troubled recent history, when it dominated news headlines for all the wrong reasons, Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is a beautiful, resilient city, with a friendly, easy-going vibe and rich cultural offerings, including an acclaimed long-running film festival.
Set in a picturesque valley and surrounded by wooded mountains, its Ottoman-era mosques, Austro-Hungarian civic buildings and Romanesque churches have sat compatibly side by side for centuries (earning it the epithet “the Jerusalem of Europe”), just as its diverse ethnic and religious communities rub along, for the most…
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