Sarajevo's Orthodox cathedral (dedicated in 1872) has a soaring interior space, a vast gilded iconostasis (a gift from the Russian royal family) and two rows of stained-glass windows. At night the building is artfully lit.
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A storybook neo-Moorish striped facade makes the triangular Vije膰nica (1896) Sarajevo's most beautiful Austro-Hungarian鈥揺ra building. Seriously damaged鈥
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This affecting museum had its genesis in a 2013 book edited by Jasminko Halilovi膰, in which he asked a simple question of survivors of the Sarajevo siege:鈥
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This gallery uses stirring photography, video footage and audio testimonies of survivors and family members to create a powerful memorial to the 8372鈥
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Reopened in 2018 after being destroyed during the war, Sarajevo's cable car once again shuttles people on a nine-minute ride, climbing 500m to a viewpoint鈥
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During the 1992鈥95 siege, when Sarajevo was surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces, the only link to the outside world was an 800m-long, 1m-wide, 1.6m-high鈥
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Bosnia's biggest and best-endowed museum of ancient and natural history is housed in an impressive, purpose-built quadrangle of neoclassical 1913鈥
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At this highly commercialised site, a dozen or more kilometres of tunnels supposedly form a labyrinth that dates back many millennia. Guides postulate鈥
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Somewhat misleadingly named, this small yet engrossing museum occupies a striking, still partly war-damaged 1960s socialist-modernist building originally鈥
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Behind a sturdy Austro-Hungarian facade this small but inspired three-level gallery hosts a changing series of exhibitions. The top floor has a semi鈥
2. Museum of Crimes Against Humanity & Genocide 1992鈥1995
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Nothing is sugar-coated in this confronting museum covering the many atrocities that took place throughout Bosnia during the 1990s war. Video footage鈥
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Fronted with twin-spired clock towers and rose windows above the stone portal, this neo-Gothic 1889 Catholic cathedral has a colourful interior and fine鈥
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This gallery uses stirring photography, video footage and audio testimonies of survivors and family members to create a powerful memorial to the 8372鈥
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You'd never guess from its Austrian-looking exterior, but this is one of the oldest surviving residential buildings in central Sarajevo. Inside, it's a鈥
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This 1902 neo-Moorish building is both a community centre and the main place of worship for Sarajevo's much-diminished Jewish community. Don't be put off鈥
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More religiously open-minded than most of Western Europe in its day, the Ottoman Empire offered refuge to the Sephardic Jews who had been evicted en masse鈥
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Forming the centrepiece to a pretty park just across the river from the old town, this distinctive former bandstand was originally built in 1913, though鈥