Latinska Cuprija bridge description and photos - Bosnia and Herzegovina: Sarajevo (Topic)

Latinska Cuprija bridge description and photos - Bosnia and Herzegovina: Sarajevo. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The name in English is Latinska Cuprija.

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The Latinska Chupriya Bridge is undoubtedly the most famous place in Sarajevo, turning the course of almost all history. A shot was fired here, which cut off the peaceful life of millions of people and became the reason for the outbreak of the First World War.

The bridge (chupriya) was named Latin because it was erected near the quarters where Catholics lived, they were called "Latin". The first mention of the bridge over the Milacki River, along which Sarajevo stretches, dates back to 1541. It was a wooden bridge demolished by flood waters. A stone one appeared in its place, which stood until 1791. The reason for its destruction is also a flood. Its restoration was financed by a wealthy Sarajevo merchant. The reconstruction of the forty-meter bridge was completed in 1798. And almost a hundred years later, the bridge was expanded with footpaths. At the same time, the bridge lost its fifth arch - during the construction of the embankment.

Externally, the Latin bridge is similar to the neighboring one, located upstream. The one and the other have four semicircular arches, the same type of limestone support. Latinska Chupriya is distinguished by through holes in the supports - to facilitate the structure and to discharge water during floods. These two round holes create an original decorative effect. It was they who got on the coat of arms of Sarajevo - in a stylized form.

In world history, the bridge remained as the place where Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the empire and his pregnant wife, died in the summer of 1914. After the war, Austria-Hungary, as an empire, ceased to exist. In the same year, 1918, the bridge was named after the 19-year-old Serbian student Gavrila Princip, a member of the Young Bosnian organization, who attempted to murder him.

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