10 Reasons to Visit Sarajevo

When to Visit

May

May

May in Sarajevo is beautiful. The nature is dressed up in its glorious spring clothing, so if you are arriving in May you should find the time for a visit to some of the city's surrounding picnic areas. For a shorter nature visit, we recommend Brus on Mount Trebević, and if you want to spend an entire day in the nature, a visit to Bjelašnica's mountain villages is a must. More

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Sarajevo Stories

Sevdah and Sevdalinka

Sevdah and Sevdalinka

In early December 2024, a significant announcement was made – sevdalinka, the Bosnian-Herzegovinian urban and folk song, was inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. More

  1. This is the most beautiful city; sophisticated, complex and multicultural.

    Bono, lead singer of the band U2
  2. The people of Sarajevo: intelligent and primitive, greedy and beautiful, tired and young, very young and insane, rich and miserable, vital and ill, tall and worn out, angry and passive, dubious and geniuses, the diaspora and street punks, fans of Željo and Sarajevo, children and grownups, faithful and unfaithful, powerful and pious – all in all, almost four-hundred thousand city atoms. And to be frank, there is no end to it. You either love Sarajevo or you don’t.

    Aleksandar Hemon, writer

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