The Sarajevo City Hall, the most beautiful and the most representative facility from the Austro-Hungarian period in BiH, was visited by around 3.500 people in June. Since the opening of the reconstructed City Hall on May 9, 2014, this symbol of Sarajevo was visited by more than 150.000 people.
Coordinator of affairs in the facility of the City Hall Admir Dedović said that the number of visitors does not differ much from previous year, and that guests are coming from Turkey, Germany, Austria, Slovenia and Croatia, while the most frequent visitors of the City Hall are students of elementary and high schools in BiH.
According to Dedović, no visitor stays indifferent to the beauty of this facility and there is also great interest in two permanent exhibitions in the museum space, the exhibitions that tell the story about the reconstruction and the work of the City Hall.
Tourists were also interested in the exhibition “Ars Memoriae” by the Bosniak Institute, dedicated to the victims of the genocide in Srebrenica, whose authors are a group of young BiH artists, as well as in the exhibition set by the Embassy of India in BiH dedicated to yoga.
The City Hall was officially opened on April 20, 1896, after two years of construction. The building was used by the City Administration. Since 1947, the City Hall accommodated the National and University Library of BiH.
With its architectural style and historiography, this is one of the facilities in BiH that testifies to the time, changes of authority, and changes of its own purpose in accordance with the social system and movements.
(Source: novovrijeme.ba/photo: worldbulletin.net)
