Sarajevo, Bosnia

Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, is a lovely, cool, green little city made up of about 50% Muslims and 50% Christians. During an evening walking tour I was on, the guide commented that the city is famous for 3 things. The first is the 1914 assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the incident which sparked WWI. The second is the 1984 Winter Olympics which, according to my guide, took place in Sarajevo, finished, and that was that. And the third is of course the early 1990s war. Though today much of Sarajevo has been rebuilt there is still much evidence of that war. Many buildings are pockmarked from shelling and bullets, there are numerous locals handicapped from war injuries, and dates on gravestones in the city reveal that in the early 1990s there was a hugely disproportionate number of deaths.