2 Mostar photographed in the late 1800s. The town’s iconic bridge is partly visible in the center-left of the image. Stari Most was completed in 1566 by order of the Ottoman Sultan Suleyman I, whose ...

The historic town of Mostar, spanning a deep valley of the Neretva River, developed in the 15th and 16th centuries as an Ottoman frontier town and during the Austro-Hungarian period in the 19th and ...

JUMPING seven storeys from the Old Bridge in Mostar is a rite of passage. For the past 450 years local lads, eager to impress the girls, have been daring the 80ft leap to the distant waters of the ...

The "Old Bridge" enhanced the town's development and prosperity. It was its raison d'être. Despite reinforcement works sometimes incompatible with modern restoration principles, this construction was ...

You may automatically think something traditional like a bar mitzvah, but one European country has a very unique coming of age custom that is no mean feat. In Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ...

The 16th-century Stari Most, or Old Bridge, in the city of Mostar is one of Bosnia's most recognizable landmarks, and the tradition of diving from the bridge into the Neretva River is as old as the ...

The gravity defying stone bridge binds the two sides of a city whose story begins with its construction by a student of ‘the Michelangelo of Ottoman architecture.’ Former Travel Editor MOSTAR, Bosnia ...

There are many bridges over the river Neretva in Mostar. But there’s only one that visitors really want to see: Stari Most, the “old bridge”, which isn’t so old in fact. For anyone in the UK over the ...

Mostar shimmers with the kind of beauty that feels timeless, caught between stone and sky. The emerald waters of the Neretva River mirror centuries of history, carrying reflections of the Old Bridge ...

Orlando Duque offers his thoughts on day one in Mostar as the divers leap directly from the Old Bridge for the first time ever. Orlando Duque, the legendary diver and pioneer of the sport, is now ...

Mostar is not what I expected. Bosnia is not what I expected. After several weeks travelling through Slovenia and Croatia, I found the people of Bosnia to be the friendliest, and the food to be the ...