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The Town Hall

It represents the most beautiful and the most representative building from Austro-Hungarian period, built in pseudo-Moorish style.

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Bascarsija

The word "Bas-carsija" literarily means "main marketplace" and designates the area of market square around the fountain called "sebilj", and later this name spread on the whole nowadays Old Sarajevo's marketplace.

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The Morica Inn

Due to the needs of the expanding market-place and the traders that were coming from faraway countries, the caravanserais - motels were built. One of these, the careva husrefbeg's Morica Inn was constructed in the first half of the 16th century.

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Ali Pasha's Mosque

One of the most beautiful cupolaed mosques, built in 1561 beside the tomb of the founder of Bosnian governor of the sanzak province (sandzak bey) Ali-pasha, a native of Sarajevsko polje (Sarajevo field).

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Gazi Husref-bey's covered market building

This massive basilica-like stone building extends in length of 109 meters along the street bearing the same name. It was built by the Ragusa masters by the order of the then Bosnian sandzak-bey (governor) Gazi Husref-bey, in period from 1542 to 1543.

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The Goat Bridge

The first among innumerous bridges on the road from Sarajevo to Constantinople, the last between Constantinople and Sarajevo.

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Mayor of Sarajevo

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Mayor of Sarajevo

Professor Doctor Alija Behmen, mayor of Sarajevo

He was born in Split (Croatia), in 1940. He is a doctor of economics. At the general elections held in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2006, he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He received bachelor's, master’s and doctoral degrees at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Sarajevo. He works as a Professor at Faculty of Transportation and Communications, University of Sarajevo. He worked on leading positions in the economy: President of the Business Committee of SOUR ŽTO and RO Interšped. He was a scientific associate at the Economic Institute in Sarajevo. He has published several professional and scientific works and textbooks. In the period 1998 – 2000, he was a member of the Assembly of Sarajevo Canton, and he was a delegate and Deputy Chairman of the House of Peoples of the F BiH Parliament from 1998 – 2000. From 2001 to 2003, he held the office of the Prime Minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.




Deputies of Mayor

Igor Kamočaji

Miroslav Živanović

ADDRESS:  Office: +387 33 20 83 40
                  Fax:   +387 33 20 83 41 
                  E-mail: grad@sarajevo.ba


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