by JAN URBAN SARAJEVO-FROM THE MOUNTAINS ABOVE it, Sarajevo’s historical center looks small. Mountains and hills enclose it on three sides. Only the narrow Miljacka River cuts through, making a space in the narrow valley for four blocks of houses built during the Austro-Hungarian empire. The rest of the city lives on the mountainsides. The city is so small that […]

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