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Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge, Stari Most, Vjetrenica Cave and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Bosnia and Herzegovina and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. 2 are on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
World Heritage
Historic bridge in Višegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mimar Sinan, architect to the Ottoman court, completed this bridge across the Drina at Višegrad in 1577, on the orders of the Grand Vizier Mehmed Paša Sokolović; the town now lies in Bosnia and Herzegovina's Republika Srpska.
Photo: Julian Nyča, CC BY-SA 3.0
Bridge in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Also called the Mostar Bridge, an Ottoman bridge of the 16th century, rebuilt, that spans the Neretva and joins the two halves of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The city takes its name from the bridge keepers who watched over it in Ottoman times.
Photo: Ramirez, CC BY-SA 4.0
World Heritage
Largest cave in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina's largest cave, and the richest cave on Earth in the variety of its life, in the Dinaric Alps, a range known for its karst and its caves.
Photo: InDoRoN, CC BY-SA 3.0
Pseudoarchaeology in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Pseudoarchaeological theories about how a group of natural hills near Visoko, in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, came to be. Since 2005 Semir Osmanagić, a Bosnian-American businessman based in Houston, Texas, has claimed that the hills are the biggest ancient pyramids made by humans on Earth.
Photo: Mhare, Public domain
Primeval forest in Bosnia and Herzegovina
One of Europe's last surviving primeval forests, in Bosnia and Herzegovina close to the Montenegrin border.
Photo: Radosław Botev, Attribution
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Skyscraper in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A skyscraper of 40 storeys, 172 m (564 ft) tall, in Sarajevo's Marijin Dvor neighbourhood, in the city's central municipality, headquarters of the Bosnian newspaper company Dnevni avaz. It was built between 2006 and 2008.
Photo: Milan Suvajac, CC BY-SA 4.0
Mosque in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A Sunni mosque in Sarajevo dating from the 16th century. It is the biggest historic mosque in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and among the most representative Ottoman buildings anywhere in the Balkans.
Photo: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Ottoman stone-arch bridge over Miljacka in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A bridge of the Ottoman era crossing the Miljacka in Sarajevo.
Photo: sundeviljeff, CC BY 2.0
Mountain plateau in central Bosnia and Herzegovina
A high plateau at the centre of Bosnia and Herzegovina, belonging to the Dinaric Alps; its rocks are mostly limestone and other sediments laid down in the Secondary and Tertiary eras.
Photo: Xe0us at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Mosque in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Also called the Ferhadija Mosque, a Banja Luka mosque counted among the finest works of 16th-century Ottoman Islamic architecture in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was demolished in 1993 on the orders of the Republika Srpska authorities, as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
Photo: Samirzahirovic, CC BY-SA 4.0
Often called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, a country of Southeast Europe on the Balkan Peninsula, with a 20-kilometre-long (12-mile) coastline on the Adriatic in the south. Serbia lies to its east, Montenegro to its southeast, and Croatia wraps around its north and southwest. The climate is moderately continental, with hot summers and cold, snowy winters.
Officially Bosnia and Herzegovina. Known locally as Bosnia I Hercegovína, Босна и Херцеговина.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge, Stari Most, Vjetrenica Cave and Bosnian pyramid claims and others. Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge and Vjetrenica Cave are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Bosnia and Herzegovina that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
2 of the 10 in this guide: Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge and Vjetrenica Cave. That is not the full count for Bosnia and Herzegovina, only the listed sites that made this guide.
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