Hostel David

Mostar


Hidden behind a high gate, this convivial place is given an unusual degree of charm by the palm tree and numerous flower boxes. It's on Mostar's hidden 'hostel street'.


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1. Trg Musala

0.13 MILES

Trg Musala was once the heart of Austro-Hungarian Mostar. Today the square is a messy mishmash of architectural styles around a fountain garden. While the…

2. Španski trg

0.3 MILES

In the early 1990s, Croat and Bosniak forces bombarded each other into the rubble across a front line that ran along the Bulevar. Even now, several shell…

3. Ljubljanska Banka Tower

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Of several ruined structures remaining around Španski trg, perhaps the most disturbing is the triangular multistorey skeleton of what was once a bank…

4. Karadjoz-bey Mosque

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Mostar's biggest and, some might say, most beautiful mosque was built in 1557. Heavily damaged during the war, it has since been completely renovated with…

5. Muslibegović House

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Ring the bell to be ushered into this walled Ottoman courtyard house, built in the late 17th century and extended in 1871. Its main function today is as…

6. Bišćevića Ćošak

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Built in 1635, this is one of Mostar's very few traditional Ottoman houses to retain its original appearance, albeit now with trinkets for sale and a…

7. Koski Mehmed Pasha Mosque

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8. Džemal Bijedić Memorial House

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Part of the four-headed Museum of Hercegovina, this small archaeological and ethnographic museum occupies the former house of Džemal Bijedić, a former…