Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar
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How it came to be
In 1557 the Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent ordered a stone bridge over the Neretva. It was designed by Mimar Hayruddin, a pupil of the architect Sinan, and opened in 1566. A single arch about 29 metres long and 4 metres wide, it stands some 20 metres above the water. Fortified towers were added on both banks in the 17th century.
On 9 November 1993, during the Bosnian war, the bridge collapsed under shelling by the Croatian Defence Council (HVO). The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia later ruled it a military target because Bosnian government forces used it.
Reconstruction began in June 2001 using 16th-century methods. It cost about US$15.5 million, funded by the World Bank, UNESCO, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and Croatia. The bridge reopened on 23 July 2004, and the Old Bridge area was inscribed in 2005.
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