The bright red and orange Golden Gate Bridge, the hallmark of San Francisco and the most photographed bridge in the world, the mysterious Tower Bridge in London, shrouded in mystical legends, and the world-famous Gothic Charles Bridge in Prague, decorated with stone sculptures of the Middle Ages... There are many magnificent ancient and modern structures in the world that have repeatedly adorned the covers of qualitative travel magazines, but there is only one where the fate of all mankind was decided...

On June 28, 1914, the future heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, was killed on the Latin Bridge in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was the final event in the chain leading up to the First World War. The assassination of the archduke and his wife was committed by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the revolutionary society "Young Bosnia", which called for the end of Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Throughout the Yugoslavian era, the legendary Sarajevo bridge had been called "Princip's Bridge", until it regained its former name after the end of the Yugoslav Wars.

Today, the world-famous bridge is considered an outstanding historical monument and one of the main attractions of the Bosnian capital. The oldest bridge in the city consists of four spacious arched spans and three massive pillars that stand stably on the artificially created embankment. First mentioned in the medieval census of the Ottoman sanjaks in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1541, the magnificent stone structure is even depicted on the city coat of arms. The modern appearance of the bridge was gained after the 19th-century reconstruction: the fifth arch was removed, and the bridge lost its symmetry. Even the events of the World Wars and the Balkan Crisis could not cause such catastrophic destruction as the floods of the obstinate Miljacka River in the 18th century.