(International) Guess the Location 2 a.k.a. Part Deux (see rules post 1)

Balmed Out

Arslanagić bridge – Trebinje?

Cant get exact picture but very similar if proven correct i'll hand over to josip for the next one.

josip

Balmed Out wrote: »

Arslanagić bridge – Trebinje?

Well done.

Commissioned in 1574 by the same Turkish (Serbian) Grand Vizier who commissioned the more famous Visegrad (Bridge on the Drina) bridge.
Hard to make out, but in the 2nd pic I posted, each stone is numbered.
A hydroelectric station and dam was built in 1965 and the bridge was submerged, but the following year they emptied the reservoir and moved the bridge 10km upstream, stone by stone.

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/bosnia-hercegovina/trebinje/attractions/arslanagic-bridge/a/poi-sig/1370722/1302534

Balmed Out

Balmed Out wrote: »

Arslanagić bridge – Trebinje?

Cant get exact picture but very similar if proven correct i'll hand over to josip for the next one.

How did you find it? I was looking for Roman arch bridges in eastern Europe and that one didn't pop up for me.

josip

Deleted User wrote: »

How did you find it? I was looking for Roman arch bridges in eastern Europe and that one didn't pop up for me.

Most of the stone bridges in the Balkans would have been built by the Turks so the Roman bit might have excluded it from the hits.

Balmed Out

Deleted User wrote: »

How did you find it? I was looking for Roman arch bridges in eastern Europe and that one didn't pop up for me.

I googled ottomon bridge croatia, montenegro etc till bosnia

jmayo

Deleted User wrote: »

How did you find it? I was looking for Roman arch bridges in eastern Europe and that one didn't pop up for me.

Nah that has definitely Ottoman style about it.
Just think of the very famous one in Mostar with the high arch.

K.Flyer

Did anyone else think "... I'm almost sure I've seen that bridge somewhere before doing another search"?

Balmed Out

K.Flyer wrote: »

Did anyone else think "... I'm almost sure I've seen that bridge somewhere before doing another search"?

Has it come up before or something?

Over to you anyhow josip.

josip

Balmed Out wrote: »

Has it come up before or something?

Over to you anyhow josip.

If you have one you want to put, that's fine with me.
If not, here's something that's not a bridge.

jmayo

Tjentište War Memorial in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Tito's guys really had a thing for weird war memorials.

josip

jmayo wrote: »

Tjentište War Memorial in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Tito's guys really had a thing for weird war memorials.

You wouldn't miss them on the road, that's for sure.
https://www.spomenikdatabase.org/tjentiste


All yours J.

jmayo

Ok kinda along same lines.

is it the Kunchanaburi war cemetary?

jmayo

Ahh for fecks sake I thought that would last longer as it's in Thailand and not Burma.

Yep it is Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.

I have been there so easy for me!
I'll post in a little while, out on the mobile atm.

try this

josip

Šibenik?

josip

josip wrote: »

Šibenik?

no

martyos121

Hvar?

martyos121

martyos121 wrote: »

Hvar?

nope

jmayo

Kotor in Montenegro ?

jmayo

jmayo wrote: »

Kotor in Montenegro ?

no

jmayo

Ohrid in Macedonia ?

On Lake Ohrid

jmayo

jmayo wrote: »

Ohrid in Macedonia ?

On Lake Ohrid

yep. well done
lovely spot. if anyone fancied a very very cheap holiday somewhere different, few days in Skopje & a few days in Ohrid is highly reccomended:)

Rows Grower

bubblypop wrote: »

yep. well done
lovely spot. if anyone fancied a very very cheap holiday somewhere different, few days in Skopje & a few days in Ohrid is highly reccomended:)

Googled Skopje and would love to go there, any hints on cheapest way to fly into there from our fair isle?

Rows Grower

Ooop's it's fine, I remembered Skyscanner!

No direct flights obviously, but if you travel light, carry on only, you can get combinations of Ryan air & wizz air & easy jet through different places, Munich, Berlin, etc.
You could also travel to Pristina in Kosovo, fly from here to Luton, then onto Pristina. It's about an hour journey to Skopje, around 50 Euro in a taxi.

Rows Grower

bubblypop wrote: »

No direct flights obviously, but if you travel light, carry on only, you can get combinations of Ryan air & wizz air & easy jet through different places, Munich, Berlin, etc.
You could also travel to Pristina in Kosovo, fly from here to Luton, then onto Pristina. It's about an hour journey to Skopje, around 50 Euro in a taxi.

Cheer's bubblypop was just checking the Berlin route as Kerry Airport has Ryanair flights to there now.

Will have a look at the Pristaina option too, Skopje is in my head now so I'll have to go there. Be a nice break.

jmayo

Folks if anyone wants to go ahead please do. Have to say that there appears to be some real hidden gems in that part of the world.

K.Flyer

A quick one I imagine.