Five sides of Mostar

Mostar is a place with a unique atmosphere. The predominantly Muslim eastern city is studded with the minarets of mosques while Catholic church spires reach skyward on the west. This is the point at which two ancient civilisations meet. Communist era brutally-functional concrete architecture remains across the city, a reminder of the days of Tito's Yugoslavia. Bomb damaged and bullet strafed buildings remain throughout the city, where the Balkan wars of the 1990s feel more recent than in the tourist hot-spots of the Croatian Coast. Then, a whole range of new, post-war buildings, like the Mostar Hotel rub shoulders with all of the above. A place once visited, never forgotten.