From June to July 2018, I visited more than 10 countries in the Balkans, giving me the opportunity to walk into the long-awaited Sarajevo, into the scenes from the film "Walter Defends Sarajevo", and walk around the Latin Bridge, known as the "Sarajevo Incident". The "Sarajevo Incident" was the trigger for the outbreak of the First World War, which eventually led to the outbreak of the First World War.
Sarajevo Latin Bridge
Sarajevo is the capital and economic and cultural center of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sarajevo is a world-famous city that sparked the First World War. Sarajevo is the only city in Europe where four religions and cultures are intertwined, with many historical and cultural monuments, including Islamic mosques, Catholic churches, Orthodox churches and synagogues.
Sarajevo
Old
Old Town Square
Bosnia and Herzegovina is abbreviated: "Bosnia and Herzegovina". After World War II, Sarajevo was the capital of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in Bosnia and Herzegovina, near the upper bosna river, a tributary of the central Sava River. Surrounded by mountains, the scenic old city was built in 1263. Sarajevo has changed its name several times in history, and now its name means "the palace of the Sultan's governor" in Turkish, which shows the profound influence of Turkish culture on the city. Historically one of the most prosperous cities in the Balkans, Sarajevo's Miljacka river runs through the city from east to west, adding a gentle temperament to the mountain city of Sarajevo. It separates the old town from the new town.
New Town
New Town Street
Sarajevo's old town ,Bascarsija, whose name comes from the Turkish word meaning "main market", is the historical and cultural center of Sarajevo. In 1462, a number of inns and shops were built here, which is the prototype of the old town. At that time, the residents were mainly concentrated in the area of the Imperial Mosque on the other side of the river, and the governor built bridges over the river to facilitate people's passage, and Bascharcia gradually became the largest commercial center in the Balkan Peninsula.
City
streetcar
A corner of the city
The old town of Bashkalhia has one of the country's most unique and colorful market centers, a multi-ethnic and culturally integrated resort. The mosque, the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, form a triangle, which is the old town of the three ethnic groups, and the most attractive place in Sarajevo. For a long time, Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Islam and Judaism have met and collided here, fighting each other and coexisting peacefully. Sarajevo is also known as the "Jerusalem of Europe".
Sebilj is a landmark of Sarajevo, sebilj means "a building built on the place where the water flows through". Located on the uniquely shaped market square of the Old Town, the Sebili Fountain was built in 1891 and is an important symbol of Sarajevo. The square is paved with marble paths and surrounded by open courtyards, shops, cafés and mosques. Introduced from the Ottoman Turkish Empire in the 16th century, the city once had more than 300 fountains, large and small, mainly for the purity and drinking of Islamic believers. Built in 1753 and destroyed by fire, the fountain was rebuilt in 1891 with an octagonal part and an ornately decorated circular dome. Water flows through two stone sinks at the front and back. During the Bosnian War, the fountain was hit by shells, and in 2006 the tower was changed to wooden when it was rebuilt. In the small square in front of the fountain, countless pigeons gathered.
Sebili Fountain
Street
Bars along the street
The old town of Sarajevo, the scene in the movie "Walter Defends Sarajevo", is displayed little by little in the eyes. Gazi Husrev Bey's Mosque, where the guerrilla and watchmaker Shedd was shot and killed in an ambush by the Germans was filmed in the courtyard of the mosque. Also known as the "Begova džamija", the Gze Khserre Berg Mosque, also known as the "Begova džamija", was also the largest mosque in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Balkan Peninsula, one of the most important mosques in the whole country of Bosnia and Herzegovina and an outstanding example of Ottoman architecture. The designer was mimar Sinan (1490-1588), the great architect of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, who presided over the construction of a series of famous Turkish buildings such as The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Like all mosques, it is extroverted and inward-looking, with a bland appearance and an elaborate interior. The mosque has multiple domes, the main roof is up to 13 meters in diameter, there are several small domes next to it, and the imposing minaret is 47 meters high. All mosques have a series of outbuildings including fountains, restaurants, Islamic schools, libraries, octagonal tombs and cemeteries.
Berg Mosque
Gazi Husrev Bey was a prominent figure in Sarajevo, and in 1521 Gözi Hussere Beg became the second governor of Bosnia, after whom the mosque was named.
belfry
The bell tower, which is taller than the minaret of the mosque, was used in the film as the vantage point of the guerrillas' exchange of fire with the Germans, who retreated from the upper rope of the bell tower. It was one of the few Surviving Ottoman landmarks from the bombing of Podgorica during World War II and was built in 1667.
A short walk along the streets of the old town is Sarajevo's oldest coppersmith street (Kazandziliuk), and when you step into the alley, you can't help but see the scene from the movie "Walter Defends Sarajevo": the stirring sound of copper and the labyrinth of alleys overwhelm the Germans pursuing the resistance fighters, and the guerrillas circle the pursuing Germans in the labyrinthine alleys. This is one of the locations of the film. Coppersmith Street is the oldest street in Sarajevo, founded in 1489 and the oldest street in Sarajevo. Not far from the square is a coppersmith street built in 1489, lined with shops selling Islamic-style samovars and other metal utensils.
Coppersmith Street – the location of walter defends Sarajevo
The Muzej Sarajevo museum is located opposite the Latin Bridge, and on the street, the museum shows the history of the city from 1878 to the fall of austria-Hungary from 1878 until the fall of Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I.
The author of this article is at the Sarajevo Museum
The author of this article is in Sarajevo
Sarajevo, because of its complex historical story, is somewhat tragic. On June 28, 1914, the Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary was assassinated by Serbian nationalists here, an event that became the trigger for World War I. The Latin Bridge is the oldest bridge in Sarajevo and its foundation dates back to at least 1541. The bridge, which used to be a wooden bridge, was damaged in a flood and the four-hole stone arch bridge was rebuilt in 1798.
Latin Bridge
On 28 June 1914, on the north side of the bridge, the Grand Duchess and his wife, Gavrilo Princip (1894-1918), a 19-year-old Serb youth, fired seven shots in a row with a Browning M1910 automatic pistol, assassinating Franz Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, who was visiting Sarajevo, and his wife Sofia. Known in history as the "Sarajevo Incident", it became the fuse for the outbreak of the First World War, which eventually led to the outbreak of the First World War.
Walking around the Latin Bridge is not the same feeling
During the Bosnian War, the inhabitants of Sarajevo experienced a three-year "siege", during which 150,000 people were purged and 3,500 buildings were blown up. On the riverside buildings, there are still bullet marks. The whole of Sarajevo has been struggling to recover gradually. Successive wars have traumatized her time and time again, and Sarajevo has been reborn again and again.
Remains of the Eastern Roman Empire
Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo is a documentary film co-produced by the United States, Canada and Germany, completed in 1994. It describes the true story of a young couple who tried to flee the city during the Yugoslav Civil War when Serbian troops besieged the city of Sarajevo, but were shot dead by the army.
The couple lives in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Like many Bosnian couples, they come from different faith backgrounds: the man, Boško Brkić, is Bosnian of Serbian origin, and the woman, Admira Ismić, is Bosnian Muslim. The two fell in love for many years until the civil war broke out in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the age of 25, and Sarajevo was besieged by Serb troops, and they were forced to meet and flee. They were killed at the Vrbanja Bridge on 19 May 1993 while fleeing besieged Sarajevo. Because there were people familiar with each other on both sides of the war, it was supposed that during the time when the two men left the city, the two sides agreed to cease fire. But when the two stepped on the bridge, the gunshots suddenly sounded, Boshko Burkić was the first to be shot and killed, Andemira Ismić crawled to the man's side, hugged the other's body, the gun sounded again, and she was unfortunately shot and killed. The two were only 25 years old at the time of their deaths. An American journalist who happened to be taking refuge nearby and witnessed the couple's fall was photographed, which became an international news story at the time, and was therefore described as "Romeo and Juliet of Sarajevo".
and Walter movie posters and shots from Walter Defending Sarajevo
Sarajevo's rich cultural atmosphere attracts international tourists to experience the city's historical vicissitudes and stormy world. Today's Sarajevo citizens yearn for a better life, but they can't forget the past, and Sarajevo doesn't believe in tears.
Sun Keqin wrote and photographed