3-082-194 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Ten Days in Bosnia: Serajevo from the Citadel, 1895. 'From the Frontier to the Capital... A journey of some eleven hours from Brod carries us to Serajevo...There are many peaks with an altitude of 4000 ft.; and the whole range encircles the city like a wall, and adds not a little to its picturesqueness. It affords a background of rich green to the numberless delicate spires of white which shoot up above the mosques...And it helps not a little to justify the description "Golden Serajevo," which is the proudest boast of the capital...Serajevo is a city of nearly thirty thousand inhabitants, of which some sixteen thousand are Mussulmans, more than five thousand Orthodox Greeks, and the residue Catholics. The guide-book, however, is in no way able to bring home to one the impressive aspect of the place as one first sees it, either from the river Miljacka, upon whose banks it is built, or from the great height of the citadel, which towers above its streets...Certainly, there is no city in Europe which has such a glow of the ultimate East upon it; none where so many mosques of exquisite whiteness, such a medley of traders, or such a characteristic bazaar, stamp the long reign of the Turk and his faith'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.