Travnik map — the town and the valley
Map of Travnik: the fortress, Plava Voda, hotels, restaurants and everyday services across the Lašva valley.
Travnik Fortress (Travnik Castle)
The medieval fortress on the ridge above the old town, and the reason Travnik is where it is.
Plava Voda (Blue Water)
Plava Voda, Travnik — a cold spring surfacing in the middle of town, with stone bridges, old plane trees and a row of terraces beside it.
The Many-Coloured Mosque
Painted floral decoration outside rather than in — unusual in Ottoman architecture — above a working bezistan.
Ivo Andrić's Birthplace
The house where the 1961 Nobel laureate in literature was born, now a small museum.
The Old Bazaar (Čaršija)
The Ottoman commercial core — coppersmiths, ćevabdžinice, coffee, and the two clock towers above it.
The Viziers' Tombs
Ottoman tomb structures marking the men who governed Bosnia from this town.
Vlašić
The mountain above Travnik: skiing in winter, high pasture and shepherds' settlements in summer, and the cheese that carries its name.
IllustrationVlašić cheese (Travnički sir)
A brined sheep's-milk cheese from the high pasture, sold by the slab in the bazaar.
Travnik ćevapi
Grilled minced-meat fingers in somun bread. Travnik argues about who does them best and does not expect to settle it.
Bosnian coffee
Served in a džezva with a copper tray, a cube of sugar and rahat lokum. It is a sitting, not a drink.
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