I love my home town...

[valiha]

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Comments

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

I'm not surprised you love it ... My OH knows it well - he was there during the war (is a journo). We have good friends from Mostar here who haven't gone back (yet). I would so like to see it!

[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

Oh you definitely should! Photos don't do it justice. It is truly the soul of the city. It breaks my heart to see my beloved town still in ruins. A full year after the elections and the city still has no mayor...

[black-raven135.livejournal.com]

Beautiful, absolutely beautiful
Thanks for sharing it with us
:-)

[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! It deserves a lot of love after all the bad things that happened.

[kayim.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's beautiful! I never realised how pretty it was....

[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

I was born and raised there, and every once in a while its beauty just catches me by surprise. That's one sight I will never get tired of seeing.

[tpena19.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous

[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

Glad we agree! :)

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Oh that is catch-in-the-throat beautiful...

[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

It is, isn't it? We all had tears in our eyes when it was brought down, after centuries of bridging the river. It rose from the dead, so to speak, just as beautiful as ever.

[boogieshoes.livejournal.com]

wow. you have got one of the prettiest home-towns, hands-down. was that pic taken after the late unpleasantness? because, i mean, *wow*.

-bs

[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the compliment, I think so too!

I believe it was (and no need to use a euphemism for the war; I lived through it and can only wish it could be described as an unpleasantness). It meant the world to us to have it rebuilt, though of course it would have been preferable if it hadn't been taken down at all. Every piece was taken out of the river, and those pieces that couldn't be used were replaced with the stone from the original quarry. The same techniques used in 1557 when it was built were used again, and the bridge is now a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The Times ran an article by one of Mostar's oldest high divers that sums up the feeling of every Mostarian.