Visit: Mehmed Pasa Sokolovic Bridge, Palih boraca 6, Visegrad 73240 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Višegrad lies on the Drina River, in a spacious basin, on hilly slopes that gently rise to the mountains of over 1000 meters high. Višegrad basin is one of the few extensions in the Drina River, which, partly, consists high cliffs and mountains. At the place where the mountains forming the narrow and deep canyon of the Drina are separated into a spacious basin, there are the stone 500 years old bridge with 11 arches, known worldwide as “Bridge over Drina” thanks to Ivo Andrić, a Bosnian novelist, who has written the novel „Bridge over Drina“ and got a Nobel prize for it.