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 ...

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 ...

"Are you 1,000 percent certain I'm not about to die?" I asked, eyeing my taxi driver with suspicion. “One million percent,” Zoran confirmed, nodding. We had just driven 30 minutes from the Bosnian ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stari Most bridge in Bosnian city of Mostar built by Ottomans in 16th century, is 450 years old and connects the city DIVERS in Bosnia perform death-defying leaps from a 90ft bridge. Daredevils from ...

When it comes to planning a European city break, Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dubrovnik and Budapest are all typically top of the list. However, lesser-known cities are now starting to draw in the ...

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 ...

There are countless bridges worldwide–but which is the most beautiful? The magazine “Time Out” has decided and ranked the 19 most beautiful bridges in the world. The number one is in Europe.