Ivo Andrić, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
“If you take a look at Sarajevo at any time of day, from any surrounding hill, you will always inadvertently come to the same conclusion. It is a city that is wearing out and dying, while at the same time being reborn and transformed. Today it is the city of our most beautiful longings and endeavors and bravest desires and hopes.”
Robert Stanhopes, a traveler who visited Sarajevo in 1634
“When you enter a coffee house and look for a place to sit, you need to be very careful not to trip over the long pipes which smokers, who are seated on low pillows, leave in the middle of the coffee house floor. If you step on one of these long pipes or even touch it, it can cost you dearly, for you are disturbing the Sarajevans’ “pleasure”. Notwithstanding all of the commotion outside in Čaršija, inside there is silence. All you can hear is the bubbling of the water pipes and the sound of coffee boiling on the embers.”
Richard Gere, actor
“Sarajevo is an amazing and beautiful city where incredible people live. It’s an ancient city where Jews, Muslims and Christians have been living very well together for centuries. It’s an incredible place where everyone wants to go once in their life.”
Bono, lead singer of the band U2
“This is the most beautiful city; sophisticated, complex and multicultural.”
