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Important Customer Notice - Temporary Branch Closure - Perth Due to circumstances beyond our control, our Perth showroom, sales counter and warehouse will be closed on Saturday 13th November. Ask Question Tell a Friend. Cargoes of wool, meat, honey and oats were shipped from Mostar towards the seaside cities.
All three religious communities of Mostar lived in harmony for centuries with Ottomans who had high level of tolerance towards the Christian population. After the third failure of the Ottomans in the Battle for Vienna in , the Turkish Empire started to decline.
Uprisings were most frequent in the 18th century, especially from to and until the end of the 19th century which marked the final collapse the Ottoman Empire. Austria-Hungary included Bosnia and Herzegovina in its administrative region when railroad, bridges, schools and public bath were built. Austria-Hungarian rule ended with the assassination of Prince Ferdinand in Sarajevo and much of Bosnia and Herzegovina experienced harsh economic and political struggles in the decades that followed.
Mostar became one of the major socialist strongholds and the most important city of Herzegovina. The city enjoyed great prosperity in the years leading up to the disintegration of Yugoslavia. All immediately changed with the War in Bosnia in when Mostar experienced its worst part of history that is regarded as its worst destruction. Even now the downtown is full of condemned and abandoned buildings, their windows blown out like black eyes.
Even the stunning Old Bridge of Mostar was blown to smithereens during what many consider to be the low point of the war. Until Mostar was split up along ethnic lines and consisted of six small municipalities. Those ethnic divisions are not evident to visitor today. Truly united Mostar is the only way to ensure peace for the future generations. There has been much reconstruction since the war ended but wounds need a long time to heal.
Aleksa Santic was born in in Mostar where he spent most of his life. He achieved his highest poetic maturity between and when he wrote his most beautiful poems. The epic of Aleksa Santic is rich in emotions, love sorrow but also pain and spite for socially and nationally dismepowered population whom he belonged. His muse is between love and patriotism, and ideally imaginative beloved person and suffering people. When the Stari most, or Old Bridge, collapsed from Croat tank shelling in it was like the heart was ripped out of most Mostar natives.
Now the uniquely beautiful stone structure that had spanned the Neretva River for over four centuries once again arches across its raging waters. The reopening of the Stari most — Old Bridge in July was spectacular celebration that reinstated Herzegovina as one of the most exciting tourist destinations in the Balkans.
Mostar is one of the most beautiful old towns in the region — slick and white town with the icy green winding Neretva. In its center of cobblestone footpaths sits the breathtaking arch of the Old Bridge in Mostar.
Mostar has many structures built during the period of the Austrian rule and administration which make good harmony of the western and oriental architecture — the pseudo Maurian style. Among the most interesting structures and object of the Austria-Hungarian style of Mostar are the Old Gymnasium on the Spanish square constructed in , which is the most elite school in the town, and the City baths from that was built as the powerful structure of the Austria-Hungary style with Maurian ornaments according to plans of architect Rudolf Tonnies, with assistance of Miroslav Loos.
A large number of structures in Mostar of the European style was built in the Glavan ulica — the main street, and surely one of the most beautiful is the Mostar Gymnasium which truly resembles the City Hall in Sarajevo. As it became worn out in the middle of the 16th century people of Mostar asked the authorities in Istambul to build a new bridge from quality material.
They got permit and the Old Bridge was completed and put into service in July Its span is 28,70 meters and 4,49 meters wide it has only one big stone arch. The Mostar Bridge was built of square stones connected with iron hooks. The well-known builders and masons from Dubrovnik and surroundings of Popovo Polje built the bridge at the narrowest part of the Neretva River canyon and thus completed the whole marvelous picture of this landscape making it one of the most beautiful in the total length of the river, from its source to the Adriatic Sea.
This programme aimed at the institutional development of NGOs and other non-profit organizations, strengthening their commitment to nature protection and cross-border cooperation.
The loudest stakeholders in HR are land owners in the delta farmers are against restrictions in agricultural production. NGO's are also engaged for preserving the environmental uniqueness of the Delta. Industry owners are afraid of imposing high standards for waste disposal and try to para-lyze bilateral negotiations through political lobbying. Stakeholder participation in the Neretva river basin is rather poor. Civil sector is still developing in BiH, but the NGO sector is a very active player in the environmental sector.
Thanks to the international interest in Neretva river, the level of awareness rises also in HR. Issues concerning Neretva delta are often in the media.
Tourism is also an activity that stimulates public involvement in environmenttal problems. At this moment the most positive role in awa-reness-raising and education has national TV with different contributions of journalists spe-cialized in the field of environmental problems and also documentary scientific program domestic and foreign.
Bosnia and Herzegovina has not signed the Aarhus Convention, but the Entities have laws on access-to-information, as one way for its implementation. At this moment the most positive role in aware-ness—raising and education is with different local and mass media. Mostar aluminum industry , Capljina, Ljubuski, Jablanica, solid waste dumping, and system of hydropower plants have dominant influence on water quality in the upper Bosnian part and the Croatian part of the basin.
In Croatia main problems are intensive agriculture in the delta, and transformation of natural wetlands into arable land.
Critical issues are also navigation, the dense network of roads, railroad, new highway in preparation , other infrastructure and the settlements Metkovic and Opuzen. New initiatives to enlarge detention volumes in the Trebisnjica hydropower system are a real threat to the delta lessening the Neretva recharge from Trebisnjica can cause deeper penetration of salt water into the delta. The domestic and international community knows the problem of Neretva river, but the actions in the basin are not adequate.
Foreign influence at this moment is stronger than bilateral negotiations. Project entitled "River Basin Management Program", launched in November , and to be finished in Overall ability to mobilize domestic and private capital and ODA is poor, because the general strategy for RB development and management is missing.
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