Caffe Tito

Out by the national historical museum is the Caffe Tito, a sort of beer garden themed around Yugoslavia's post-WWII dictator. We saw things like this, about Mao, in Beijing and in Chunking, in 2008 (maybe in was a chain?). They seemed like good clean nostalgic fun, and the Tito Cafe seemed similar. Though in the eastern bloc, Tito's Yugoslavia was no puppet of Moscow. Tito had ideas of creating a third bloc and was courted by all the world's leaders. We had a drink there and watched a bit more of the World Cup. Our visit to Sarajevo and Bosnia-Hertzegovina was over.

Kiddie playground adjoins the aging artillery display

Inside

Click to enlarge and squint and you'll see JFK and Tito

UN relief to Sarajevo during the siege included the inevitable
canned "meat," to which this monument pays "homage" 

Sarajevo, 3

And still more of Sarajevo...

Street scene

Eternal flame honoring Tito's partisans in WWII

Vienna?!

The B-H central bank

Sarajevo restaurateurs worked for 4 years to keep the McDonald's from opening,
fearing it would hurt their recovering businesses; turns out it's not that popular

Children's memorial: more than 1,500 children died in the siege

B-H president's residence

And another old mosque

Today's wedding

Where the newer, post-war architecture begins

Sarajevo is in a long mountain valley; Serbian forces occupied the heights
encircling the city and pounded it relentlessly; in a clearing on this hill, Serbian
snipers killed patients in their beds in the local hospital

A large modern upscale shopping center

The city is a panoply of different sights, emotions

Government center

The former Holiday Inn, built originally for the Olympics, where war
correspondents hung out during the siege

National historical museum

Just for the record, we spent 3 nights at Oaza Camping in the suburb of Ilidza, a
long, rickety tram ride to the centro storico; despite the 5 stars, the campground
was a sodden mess mostly; the rain had been going on for days

Sarajevo, 2

More of Sarajevo, this great historic city, rising again from the rubble...

Perhaps foremost among the shots hear 'round the world

The Latin Bridge, where the Archduke was headed...the Great War broke out
just weeks later

Hapsburg flair begins to appear

But wait, we're still in a Turkish bazaar!

A diving line that celebrates the city's diversity

Looking toward Vienna

And Istanbul

Another old mosque

Right next to...

And its beautiful Viennese cafe, Beck's and Cafana

Just a whiff of Art Nuvo

The Roman Catholic cathedsral

Many of Sarajevo's Roses are now gone, paved over; with a red resin, they mark
places where shells hit and people died

Vienna?!

Another near the cathedral

Damage on the cathedral

Sic transit, Gloria; Hamami, now a souvenir shoppe

Back side of cathedral

Orthodox church; there were four orthodox churches in Sarajevo in the war
years, and never in the 3 years of artillery bombardment and sniper assassination
by Serbs were any of these four vandalized; there were several thousand Serbs
in Sarajevo who suffered along with the Muslims and Roman Christians and
Jews; and others

Something new and different: park benches that fold up for advertising

Chess in a park