Inside a Besieged City: How Sarajevo Functioned Under Fire
ID: GYG1189119-1824052
Category:
Country: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Duration:
05:00 hours
Description
Explore Sarajevo through the systems, spaces, and decisions that allowed a city to function while under siege. This experience explains daily life, movement, survival inside a surrounded environment.
This experience examines Sarajevo during the siege by focusing on how the city continued to function under constant threat, rather than on battles or military operations.
The tour explains how residents adapted to a city with limited movement, disrupted infrastructure, and continuous risk. Streets, viewpoints, and public spaces are used to show how everyday activities — crossing a road, reaching water, or staying connected — required strategy and awareness.
Rather than presenting the war as a timeline of events, this tour treats Sarajevo as a living urban system under pressure, shaped by geography, visibility, and isolation.
You will visit:
- Sniper Alley, explained as a space of controlled movement rather than a combat zone
- Žuta Tabija, illustrating how elevation defined exposure and vulnerability
- Trebević Viewpoint, offering spatial understanding of siege dynamics
- The Jewish Cemetery, used to explain visibility, risk, and loss within the city
- The Tunnel of Hope, presented as an urban lifeline rather than a battlefield site
Highlights
- Understand how Sarajevo functioned as a city while under siege.
- Learn how movement, space, and geography shaped daily life.
- Visit key locations explained through urban survival and adaptation.
Guiding languages
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
This tour approaches the siege of Sarajevo as an urban experience, focusing on infrastructure, movement, and daily life rather than combat history. Locations are used to explain how a city adapted to isolation and constant risk.
INCLUDED
- Guided tour of Sarajevo's significant war-related sites
- Water bottle
- Transportation to the locations
When should I book?
To guarantee availability book as soon as possible. Early booking is worth consideration especially if you planning the trip during high season like public holidays or weekends.
Cancellations
This excursion you can cancel with no cost up to 24 hours before the start of the trip. If you cancel it after 24 hours or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity. Being late on pick-up or departure will be considered as not showing up.
