Packed with local youth smoking nargile (water pipes), this vaguely loungey cafe blares its music and spreads its colourful low stools beneath a central plane tree on one of the cutest little squares of the old town. No alcohol is served.
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This ornamental drinking fountain, looking more like an enclosed oriental gazebo, dates from 1891 and marks the centre of Baščaršija's central square.
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