GREAT PARK OF SARAJEVO

This small wooded park of 3 ha (Veliki Park) is the largest green space in central Sarajevo. Spread out on a hillside, it was created in 1886 by the Austro-Hungarian authorities on the site of the Muslim cemetery of Čekrekčija, of which a few steles remain between the trees. There are also the nine graves of policemen killed during the siege in 1993. At the foot of the park, along the main street Maršala-Tita, stands the fountain of the "Monument to the Murdered Children of the Siege of Sarajevo" (2009) and the sculpture "Nermine, dođi!"