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Mehmed PaAaa Sokolovic Bridge on the Drina River, ViAaegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Mehmed PaAaa Sokolovic Bridge on the Drina River, ViAaegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mehmed PaAaa Sokolovic Bridge is the famous Bridge from the Yugoslavian Novelist Ivo Andrics book the Bridge on the Drina.
It was built at the end of the 16th century by the architect Mimar Koca Sinan for Grand Vizir Mehmed PaAaa Sokolovic.
The bridge is characteristic of the Ottoman monumental architecture and civil engineering. It has 11 masonry arches with spans of 11 m to 15 m. The 179.5 m long bridge is a masterpiece of Sinan, one of the greatest architects of the classical Ottoman period and a contemporary of the Italian Renaissance, with which his work may be compared. It is located in ViAaegrad, East of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jean-Philippe Tournut
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© 2011 Jean-Philippe Tournut
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