A collectible set
One card per place on the site. Mountains, mosques, memorials, markets, and the smaller addresses we keep returning to. A small atlas you can flip through, or imagine sending home.
The series is open. 43 more cards are in design — each new card needs its own original illustration. Until those are finished, the locations themselves are on the destinations and hidden-gems pages.
The 1462 Ottoman bazaar of Sarajevo, still a working bazaar. Copper workshops on Kazandžiluk, Bosnian coffee at Morića Han, and a marker...
A small 1798 stone bridge across the Miljacka. The Habsburgs called it Princip’s Bridge after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand on 28...
The mountain ridge that closes Sarajevo to the south. Nine-minute cable car from Bistrik to 1,164 metres, with the abandoned 1984 Olympic...
Where the Bosna river begins. Cold pools welling up from under Mount Igman, surrounded by a 19th-century Habsburg park. Take tram 3...
An 18th-century Ottoman bastion on the hill of Jekovac, above the bazaar. During Ramadan a small cannon fires here at sundown to...
A tunnel dug by hand under the Sarajevo airport runway between March and July 1993. Food, fuel, ammunition, 1 million people. The...
The Avaz Twist Tower is Sarajevo’s tallest building (142 metres, completed 2008). A small public observation deck on the 35th floor costs...
A small, deliberately unflashy memorial museum to the Srebrenica genocide of July 1995. Founded by photographer Tarik Samarah in 2012, on a...
When the Austro-Hungarians built the City Hall in 1894, one stubborn Sarajevan refused to sell his Ottoman house on the chosen site....
A working open-air food market on Ferhadija, in the centre of Sarajevo. Locals call it Markale (a Bosnianisation of the Austro-Hungarian Markthalle)....
A 16th-century Ottoman han (traveller’s inn) on Sarači, the spine street of Baščaršija. Now home to one of the oldest active coffeehouses...
Sarajevo’s Old Jewish Cemetery, on the slopes of Trebević above Grbavica. Founded 1630. Around 3,800 tombstones in distinctive Sephardic sarcophagus form. One...
Sarajevo Roses are the impact craters of the 1992–1996 siege, filled with red resin and preserved in the streets where civilians were...
Svrzo’s House is a preserved 18th-century Ottoman town house at the top of Kovači, run by the Museum of Sarajevo. Four houses,...
A 1981 spomenik memorial to the Sarajevan partisans of the Second World War. Damaged in the 1990s when its hilltop was front...
Bašča kod Ene is a quiet, family-run traditional restaurant in the residential Sedrenik mahala on the northern slope above the old town....
An Ottoman stone bridge from the mid-1500s, in the Miljacka gorge four kilometres east of Sarajevo. Once on the main caravan road...
The smaller of Sarajevo’s two natural springs, on the city’s northern slopes above Faletići. A short steep walk, an icy pool, no...
Zlatna Ribica is a tiny bar near Sarajevo Cathedral with a museum-like interior, good coffee and drinks, friendly service, and very little...
