Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge
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How it came to be
The stone bridge over the Drina at Višegrad in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina was ordered by the Ottoman grand vizier Mehmed Paša Sokolović, a native of the region who held power at the summit of the empire under three sultans. Work began in 1571, and the bridge was completed in 1577 to a design by the court architect Mimar Sinan.
The bridge is 179.5 metres long, with 11 masonry arches spanning 11 to 15 metres, and a ramp of four arches set at a right angle on the left bank. Sinan, a contemporary of the Italian Renaissance, was the leading architect of the classical Ottoman age.
An exceptional flood in 1896 destroyed the parapets. Three arches were destroyed in the First World War and five damaged in the Second, and the bridge was rebuilt in stone in 1950-1952. Ivo Andrić made it the subject of his 1945 novel The Bridge on the Drina, and it was inscribed in 2007.
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