Stari Grad
Stari Grad is a municipality of the city of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the oldest and most historically significant part of Sarajevo. At its heart is the Baščaršija, the old town market sector where the city was founded by Ottoman general Isa-Beg Ishaković in the 15th century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 37,000 residents
- Description: municipality of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Also known as: “Stari Grad, Sarajevo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include War childhood museum and Koševo City Stadium.
War childhood museum
Museum
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The War Childhood Museum is a historical museum in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina that opened in January 2017. The museum presents the experiences of children who lived through the war in Bosnia, told through objects, video testimonies, and excerpts from oral histories. War childhood museum is situated 3½ km southwest of Stari Grad.
Koševo City Stadium
Stadium
Koševo Stadium, also Koševo Olympic Stadium, or Stadium Asim Ferhatović - Hase for football and other events hosted by FK Sarajevo, is a multi-purpose stadium located in the Koševo neighborhood of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Koševo City Stadium is situated 3½ km southwest of Stari Grad.
Sebilj in Sarajevo
Fountain
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The Sebilj is an Ottoman-style wooden fountain in the centre of Baščaršija Square in Sarajevo. The original Sebilj was built by Mehmed Pasha Kukavica in 1753, but it was destroyed in a fire in 1852. Sebilj in Sarajevo is situated 3½ km southwest of Stari Grad.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sarajevo and Baščaršija.
Sarajevo
Photo: Atsirlin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sarajevo is the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and its largest city. Sarajevo is very tourist friendly, especially pedestrian area in the Old Town in the centre of the city.
Baščaršija
Suburb
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Baščaršija is Sarajevo's old bazaar and the historical and cultural center of the city. Baščaršija was built in the 15th century when Isa-beg Ishaković founded the city. Baščaršija is situated 3½ km southwest of Stari Grad.
Faletići
Village
Photo: J budissin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Faletići is a village in the municipalities of Istočni Stari Grad and Stari Grad Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Stari Grad
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Urdu—“Stari Grad” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Stari Grad, Sarajevë”
- Arabic: “ستاري غراد”
- Armenian: “Ստարի Գրադ (համայնք, Բոսնիա և Հերցեգովինա)”
- Armenian: “Ստարի Գրադ”
- Belarusian: “абшчына Стары-Град”
- Belarusian: “Стары-Град (абшчына)”
- Belarusian: “Стары-Град”
- Bosnian: “Općina Stari Grad Sarajevo”
- Bosnian: “Općina Stari Grad”
- Bosnian: “Stari Grad”
- Bulgarian: “Стари град”
- Cebuano: “Općina Stari Grad Sarajevo”
- Chinese: “旧格拉德”
- Croatian: “Stari Grad Sarajevo”
- Croatian: “Stari Grad”
- Czech: “Stari Grad”
- Danish: “Stari Grad”
- Dutch: “Stari Grad”
- French: “Stari Grad”
- German: “Sarajevo-Stari Grad”
- German: “Stari Grad Sarajevo”
- German: “Stari Grad”
- Greek: “Στάρι Γκραντ”
- Hebrew: “העיר העתיקה של סרייבו”
- Japanese: “スタリ・グラード”
- Lithuanian: “Stari Grad Sarajevas”
- Lombard: “Stari Grad (Sarajevo)”
- Lombard: “Stari Grad”
- Macedonian: “Стари Град”
- Maltese: “Stari Grad”
- Moksha: “Стари град”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stari Grad, Sarajevo”
- Polish: “Stare Miasto”
- Russian: “Стари-Град (община, Босния и Герцеговина)”
- Russian: “Стари-Град, Сараево”
- Russian: “Стари-Град”
- Serbian: “Opština Stari Grad”
- Serbian: “Општина Стари град”
- Serbian: “Општина Стари Град”
- Serbian: “Сарајево Стари Град”
- Serbian: “Стари Град”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Stari grad Sarajevo”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Stari Grad”
- Slovenian: “Stari Grad”
- Spanish: “Stari Grad”
- Swedish: “Općina Stari Grad Sarajevo”
- Swedish: “Stari Grad, Sarajevo”
- Turkish: “Eskişehir”
- Turkish: “Stari Grad, Saraybosna”
- Ukrainian: “Старі-Град”
- Upper Sorbian: “Sarajevo-Stari Grad”
- Upper Sorbian: “Stari Grad Sarajevo”
- Upper Sorbian: “Stari Grad”
- Urdu: “ستاری گراد، سرائیوو”
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