Sarajevo

Sarajevo Trips

Sarajevo is a fascinating cultural cocktail of various occupying empires. It spent more than 400 years under Turkish governorship, until the Austro-Hungarians arrived in the late 19th century, thus Ottoman and Byzantine references can be found all over the city. And it was here that, 40 years later, the empire collapsed when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, hastening the outbreak of the First World War.

During the 1990s the city was beseiged and on the point of being wiped out; on Sarajevo tours we visit the Tunnel Museum, finding out how a hand-dug tunnel provided the city's citizens with a lifeline during their 1400 days of isolation. These days, Sarajevo is largely resorted and the Old Town is filled with pretty cafés, squares and churches.