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Tourism in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a fast-growing sector making up an important part in the economy of the country.. Beside a number of spots and attractions in Sarajevo and Mostar, as the country's principal tourist destinations, Bosnia and Herzegovina is regaining its reputation as an excellent ski destination with its Olympic mountain ski resorts such as Jahorina, Bjelašnica and Igman.
Live in Sarajevo by Norwegian saxophonist, tenor and composer Håkon Kornstad is a recording of his solo performance held at 18th Jazz Fest Sarajevo 2014, released by Jazzland Recordings in 2015. The composition "Adhān" by Arve Henriksen from his album Places of Worship , released by Runne Grammofon in 2013, is a field recording from his ...
The Sarajevo Film Festival red carpet, 24 July 2011. In October 1993, a ten-day Sarajevo International Film Festival was held, directed by Haris Pašović of MESS.The success of this event, combined with the legacy of Mirsad Purivatra's and Izeta Građević's wartime film screenings from 1992, led to the establishment of an annual festival.
Al Jazeera Balkans (AJB) is an international news television station headquartered in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina aimed at the media markets of the countries that used to be constituent units of SFR Yugoslavia. It is part of the Al Jazeera Media Network. The station broadcasts in local variants of the "common language spoken in Serbia ...
Sarajevo (/ ˌ s ær ə ˈ j eɪ v oʊ / SARR-ə-YAY-voh) [5] is the capital [6] and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. [7] [4] The Sarajevo metropolitan area including Sarajevo Canton, East Sarajevo and nearby municipalities is home to 555,210 inhabitants.
Tourism in Sarajevo is chiefly focused on historical, religious, and cultural aspects. In 2010, Lonely Planet's "Best in Travel" nominated it as one of the top ten cities to visit that year. [218] Sarajevo also won travel blog Foxnomad's "Best City to Visit" competition in 2012, beating more than one hundred other cities around the entire world ...
Music. An interesting aspect of the city's culture is its rich musical history. Many regard it as the most musically influential city in the Balkans, especially during the 20th century. "Kad ja pođoh na Benbašu" is a great example of traditional Bosnian music, and it is one of the city's unofficial anthems.
The most important item in the National Museum in Sarajevo is the Sarajevo Haggadah, a Jewish illuminated codex originally from 12th century Spain. Other important items include Hrvojev's mass ( Hrvojev misal ) and Hval's Codex (Hvalov zbornik), both Bosnian books of liturgy produced in Croatia at the start of the 15th century, a 16th-century ...