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Description
Property Name: Old Bridge in Mostar
Inventory No: 387-36-1
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2007-11-06
Country (State party): Bosnia and Herzegovina
Province: Hercegovina-Neretva Canton
Town: Mostar
Geographic coordinates: 43° 20′ 13.59″ N
17° 48′ 53.48″ E
Historic Period: Classic Ottoman (1453-1579)
Year of Construction: 1566
Style: Classical Ottoman
Original Use: Bridge
Current Use : Bridge
Architect: Architect Hayreddin
Significance
The Old Bridge, built in 1566, was representing one of the building miracles of 16th-century Europe, the crowning achievement of an extraordinarily creative era of Islamic culture. The Stari Most (Old Bridge) had contained the meaning and the spirit of all Bosnia and Herzegovina: the essence of the bridge is joining together, which is the beautiful expression of the Bosnian productive co-existence. The Old Bridge is an architectural masterpiece, destroyed in 1993, and became famous once again for its unique restoration and a symbol of post-war reconciliation. The cultural and historical value of the Old Mostar represents the urban agglomeration that had been formed in 16th century around the Old Bridge – the technological wonder of its own age – in complete harmony with the natural agglomeration of the Neretva River.
Selection Criteria
i. to represent a masterpiece of human creative genius
ii. to exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design
vi. to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance
State of Preservation
The old bridge was reconstructed in 2004 and is in a good condition now.
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Center for Peace and Multiethnic Cooperation in Mostar Stari most – spomenik mira (The Old Bridge –monument of Peace), Catalogue for exhibition – in Vienna, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Athens, Istanbul and Mostar. Two volumes. Mostar, 2004.
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