Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Nearby:
The
clock tower
across the narrow street is also part of the mosque complex;
notice that its “noon” lines up with sunset—critical in establishing the five times each day
that Muslims pray. Under the clock tower you'll find a free public WC and a little hole-in-
the-wall bakery that's open late.
Worth
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and ample goose bumps to historians with vivid imaginations, and interesting
to anyone, this is the nondescript street corner where the heir to the vast but declining
Austro-Hungarian Empire met a bloody fate at the hands of a Bosnian Serb separatist,
plunging Europe into the War to End All Wars (until the next war). The shots were fired as
Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie sat, JFK-and-Jackie style, in an open-top car during
a visit to the Bosnian capital (for the full story, see the sidebar). The street corner where it
happened, across from the Latin Bridge (Latinska
Ć
uprija), is now home to a plaque and a
humble one-room museum, which shows a good video montage in its window that helps il-
lustrate the story. The
Sarajevo 1878-1918 Museum
traces the four decades when this city
was part of the Vienna-ruled Austro-Hungarian Empire, with a special emphasis on the as-
sassination.Justinsidetheentrance,lookforthesymbolicfootprintsoftheassassin,Gavrilo
