With traditional jump from the Old Bridge to the river Neretva, the 20th anniversary of its destruction was marked in Mostar. MOSTAR (AA) – “Unfortunately, for 20 years now, nobody from the City ...

Thousands of tourists braved extreme heat to cheer for divers jumping off the historic Ottoman-era Old Bridge in Bosnia's city of Mostar. The 458-year-old tradition coincides with the 20th anniversary ...

Historic Mostar Bridge, destroyed during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Croat forces and rebuilt after the war, continues its mission to unite people from different races. Unable to ...

For more than four centuries, the Old Bridge in Mostar reigned as the Bosnian city's defining landmark. A masterpiece of Ottoman architecture commissioned in 1566 by Suleiman the Magnificent, the ...

Catch a glimpse of a storied tradition in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where, for hundreds of years, divers have leaped from a bridge in the southern city of Mostar. Admir Delic leaps into the Neretva ...

MOSTAR, Bosnia (Reuters) – Lorens Listo’s name may not headline the world’s sports pages, but on the streets of his native Mostar he is hailed as a champion among champions in a sport that is central ...

The regional press and officials alike have expressed hope that the reopening of the Old Bridge in Mostar would herald a new chapter of hope and better understanding between the city's divided ...

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 ...

A team of high divers and dancers in traditional dress joined celebrations to mark the reopening of the historic bridge at Mostar in Bosnia-Hercegovina. The 16th-Century bridge was blown up during the ...

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 is much more to the Mostar area than the old bridge - starting with the mysterious Dervish house at Blagaj, the waterfalls at Kravice and the turreted castle of Ostrozac. Dervish House dates ...