Qualla: Mostar https://qualla.com/mostar en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/r/s/w/mostar-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Mostar https://qualla.com/mostar Mostar: Introduction https://qualla.com/mostar/ Photo credit Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0. Don't let anyone tell you Bosnian coffee is the same as Turkish coffee. At Cafe de Alma in Mostar, near the foot of the rebuilt Stari Most bridge, the staff will insist on the distinction -- the grind, the preparation, the way you sip it from the traditional set with a Turkish delight to cut the bitterness. It costs two convertible marks, about one euro. This small ritual of local pride captures something essential about Mostar: a city that has been flattened, divided, and rebuilt, and that still fiercely maintains its identity. The most heavily bombed city in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1990s wars, Mostar has put itself back together with remarkable determination, though the seams remain visible to anyone willing to look beyond the postcard views of the old town.

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/r/s/w/mostar-wk/srsw-mostar-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mostar: Where the Neretva Divides and Connects https://qualla.com/mostar/ Photo credit Santasa99 (talk), Public domain. Mostar sits in the valley of the Neretva River, in the heart of Herzegovina, surrounded by the raw karst landscape of the Dinaric Alps. The city exists because of the river crossing -- its very name derives from the mostari, the bridge keepers who guarded the Ottoman-era Stari Mo...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/r/s/w/mostar-wk/srsw-mostar-where-the-neretva-divides-and-connects.mp3 0:06 2 full Mostar: The City That Was Most Diverse https://qualla.com/mostar/ Photo credit New England universities, CC BY-SA 3.0. Before the war, Mostar was one of the most ethnically mixed cities in Yugoslavia. Its municipality of roughly 126,000 people included Bosniaks, Croats, Serbs, and people who identified simply as Yugoslavs, in roughly comparable numbers. Mosques, churches, and a synagogue shared t...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/r/s/w/mostar-wk/srsw-mostar-the-city-that-was-most-diverse.mp3 0:06 3 full Mostar: Ruins and Rebuilding https://qualla.com/mostar/ Photo credit Donar Reiskoffer, CC BY 3.0. The visible signs of Mostar's wars are everywhere, if you look. Bullet holes pock the facades of apartment blocks along the former front lines. Empty buildings stand with vegetation growing through shattered windows. The Stari Most itself was destroyed in November 1993 and rebuil...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/r/s/w/mostar-wk/srsw-mostar-ruins-and-rebuilding.mp3 0:06 4 full Mostar: The Everyday Pleasures https://qualla.com/mostar/ Photo credit Ma▀▄Ga, CC BY 3.0. For all its complicated past, Mostar is a lively and genuinely beautiful place. The old town bazaar of Kujundziluk sells handicrafts, carpets, and jewelry from narrow stone-front shops. Young men dive from the rebuilt Stari Most into the Neretva 24 meters below -- a tradition tha...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/r/s/w/mostar-wk/srsw-mostar-the-everyday-pleasures.mp3 0:06 5 full Mostar: A City Still Becoming https://qualla.com/mostar/ Photo credit АРК9367, CC BY-SA 4.0. Mostar is not a place that has finished processing its history. The ethnic division remains a fact of daily life -- two school systems, two bus companies, lingering tensions that outsiders may not immediately perceive beneath the warm hospitality. But the city is more than its wo...

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