WALLED CITY OF JAJCE

Surrounded by 1,300 m of ramparts, the old city (Stari Grad) spreads out on a hill that rises from the waterfalls of the Pliva to the fortress of the kings of Bosnia, located 150 m higher. In this 11-hectare area are concentrated recently rebuilt mosques, a large abandoned church, catacombs, beautiful Ottoman houses, such as the house of the dizdar (Dizdareva Kuća), the commander of the stronghold, and the house of the Krslak family (Kršlakova Kuća), which houses an art gallery. There is also the small Regional Museum, Austro-Hungarian buildings with colorful facades, cafes, restaurants, banks and hotels. The walled city is becoming more and more touristy. But it remains a place of life for more than a thousand inhabitants. This is what makes it so charming. Nothing is really perfect. The cars circulate and it's jammed, but to take the groceries to the grandparents, it's still quite practical. There are also these ruined houses, bombed by Bosnian-Serb artillery in 1992 or abandoned since the end of the war. All this is now part of the history of Jajce. It is remembered that the town was founded by the Croatian ban Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić in 1391. But this site was occupied much earlier, probably as early as the Neolithic period. To discover this past, you have to go outside the walls with the beautiful archaeological collection of the Franciscan Museum to the east and the temple of Mithras from the Roman period to the west. In short, a day is not too much to do to explore the city.