The story of Latin Bridge

At the northern end of this bridge, on 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. The shooting began the July Crisis that led to the First World War. At his trial, Princip described walking to the Latin Bridge after a first bomb attack had failed, waiting as the car came, and firing twice from four or five paces.

Its real name comes from the Catholic quarter it led to, known in Ottoman times as Latinluk. Judging by its foundations, it is the oldest of the city's preserved bridges. A census from 1541 mentions a bridge here built by a leather-worker named Hussein, and by 1565 a stone bridge had replaced it.

After a terrible flood in 1791, the merchant Abdulah-aga Briga paid for repairs, and someone worked out that the letters of his name give the year of the rebuilding. Look for the two round 'eyes' above the pillars: they appear on the seal of Sarajevo.