Sarajevska prenoćišta (Stay in Sarajevo)

Sarajevo je puno hotela, prenoćišta i konaka, raznih cijena i ugođaja. Ipak ja mogu preporučiti 2.

Prvo bi bilo Hotel Saraj, nedaleko od Starog grada, ugrađen u brdo, tako da dio soba umjesto zida ima

stijenje. Ovaj detalj daje poseban ugođaj. Do grada treba približno 5 minuta hoda, što se može reći da je sam centar. Mene je iznenadilo osoblje hotela koje se maksimalno potrudilo da mi ugodi dok sam boravio tamo. (www.hotelsaraj.com)

Drugo mjesto je hotel-prenoćište "Konak" u samom centru grada, a samim tim i centru zbivanja, nasuprot stare pravoslavne crkve. Mislim da se o ovome hotelu nema šta posebno reći, računajući da je ovo prenoćište poznato još od turskog doba. Probajte i uvjerite se. (www.konak.ba)

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The city of Sarajevo is loaded with hotels and motels, with a variety of prices and comfort. However, I can recommend two of them.

The first would be the Hotel Saraj, near the old town, built into a hill, so that part of the room instead of the wall has rocks. This detail provides a unique atmosphere. I was surprised that the hotel staff put a maximum effort to please me, while I was there. It is located next to the city center, some 5 minutes by foot, therefore it could be considered to be in the center of Sarajevo downtown. (www.hotelsaraj.com)

The second place is the hotel-lodging "Konak" in the city center, and consequently the center of the events, opposite the old Orthodox church. I think about this hotel there is nothing special to say, considering that this hostel is known ever since the Ottoman era.Try it and see for yourself. (www.konak.ba)

Sarajevska voda (Water in Sarajevo)

Sarajevska voda se ubraja u visoko kvalitetne vode, i može se piti bez bojazni. Nema potrebe kupovati flaširanu vodu. Po čitavom Sarajevu postoje javne česme i fontane, obično ispred džamija i na gradskim trgovima. Također, u okolini sarajeva postoji više izvora i vodopada. Poznato izletište i veliki izvor je Vrelo Bosne. Njegova voda je čista i može se piti direktno s izvorišta. Vodopad Skakavac je udaljen nekih 10 kilometara od Sarajeva. Visok je 98 metara i vrhunske ljepote.

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Water in Sarajevo is considered to be of high quality and can be drunk without any fear. There is no need to buy bottled water. There are several public fountains that are usually placed in front of the mosques and city squares. Also, there are several springs and waterfalls arround city of Sarajevo. Well known is "Vrelo Bosne", a huge spring next to Ilidža. Its water is clean and can be drunk straight from the spring. Waterfall "Skakavac" is some 10 kilometers avay from Sarajevo. It is 98 meters high, and of esquisite beauty.

Gdje jesti u Sarajevu (Where to eat in Sarajevo)

Ovo pitanje nije ni malo lahko odgovoriti. Izbor je ogroman, a hrana je preukusna. Na Sarajevskom jelovniku vam stoje:

• Čorbe: begova, teleća, tarhana, škembe...
• Pite: sirnica, zeljanica, krompiruša, tikvenica, burek, buredžici...
• Sač: pite, teletina, krompiri, piletina, pilav...
• Roštilj: čevapi, pljeskavica, ražnjići, piletina, teletina, jagnjetina...
• Kuhana jela: bosanski lonac, kalja, japrak, sarma, sogan dolma, sitni ćevap, šiš ćevap...
• Pekara: samuni, kifle, buhtle kako slane tako i slatke...
• Slatko: jabukovača, bečka šnita, španski vjetar, domaća torta, karamel torta...

ma nabrojati se ne može. Samo je vegeterijancima teško, jer bosanci vole meso, ali se i za njih nađe ponešto. Sada je pitanje, gdje otići da se jede?

Čorbe i kuhana jela su odličnog kvaliteta, a niskih cijena u aščinicama: "Sofra" kod Sebilja, "Hadžibajrić", "Morića han", neki preferiraju ASDž koji je nešto skuplji. Roštilj: čevabdžinica "Mrkva", "Željo", "Hodžić", jagnjetina je odlična kod Kibeta, a ima i odličan pogled na Sarajevo. Bosanski ambijent se može vidjeti u čevabdžinici "CS" vlasnika Tarika Hodžića, bivšeg fudbalera, a i bogat je izbor jela s roštilja i salata, sa veoma pristupačnim cijenama i visokim kvalitetom.

Ova čevabdžinica se nalazi na slatkom ćošetu, odmah pored slastićarne "Ramis" u kojoj možete probati odličnu "domaću tortu" kao i druge kolače, a odmah preko puta u slastičarni "DM - Demirović" služe "karamel" tortu, "bečku šnitu" i boeme. Naravno tokom ljetnih dana ne treba zaboraviti slastičarnu "Egipat" s jedinstvenim sladoledom od vanilije, čokolade ili lješnika, koja se nalazi na Ferhadiji ulici, preko puta Ferhadije džamije. Najbolju tahan-halvu, ako ne u svijetu, onda sigurno u Bosni možete probati u slastičarni "TIP-TOP" kod taxi stanice Baščaršija, 100 - 150 metara iznad sebilja, s desne strane. Ne libite se da kupite koji kilogram tahan-halve za ponijeti, jer se ona ne kvari lako, samo ako se drži u dobro zatvorenoj posudi.

U posljednje vrijeme se pojavilo dosta mjesta s DONER-KEBABOM, ali ubjedljivo najbolje je "Tuba-doner", u ul. Čizmedžiluk, odmah pored bočnog ulaza u Begovu džamiju. "ADK Doner" je prilično dobar, kao i "kod Kurte".

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This question is a hard one to answer. Selection is huge, and the food is the tastiest in the world. On the menu of Sarajevo the list looks like this:

• Soups: bey-soup (thick chicken soup), veal, tarhana (tomato with special noodles), škembe (veal stomach soup - a special treat)...
• Pies (fillou dough): cheese, spinach, potato, pumpkin, ground beef...
• Sač (a form of fire heated oven): pies, veal, potatoes, chicken, pilav - rice...
• Barbecue: chevap - sausages, burger, shishkebab, chicken, veal, lamb...
• Cooked meals: Bosnian pot - a special treat, japrak - ground meat wrapped in special grape leaves, sarma - ground meat wrapped in cabbage, sogan-dolma - ground meat wrapped in onion, sitni ćevap - beef and onion pieces slowly cooked in sauce, shishkebab slowly cooked in sauce...
• Bakery: samuni - flat bread (somewhat like pita bread but softer and fresh), buns and rolls of different kinds...
• Sweets: apple pie, "Vienna slice", "Spanish wind", domestic cake, caramel-walnut cake...
  

it is hard to list all the treats of Sarajevo. Only vegetarians have a tough luck. Bosnians eat a lot of meat, but still welcoming Bosnian people will find something for them as well. Now the question comes, WHERE TO EAT???

Soups and cooked meals are of great quality and fair prices in national restaurants: "Sofra" next to Sebilj - the center of the old downtown, "Hadžibajrić", "Morića han", some prefer ASDž (A-S-G) which is somewhat more expensive. Barbecue: "Mrkva", "Željo", "Hodžić", "Kibe" has a great lamb along with great view of Sarajevo. Traditional Bosnian ambient can be enjoyed at "CS", owned by Tarik Hodzic, former soccer star, with rich selection of barbecued food and salad bar, low prices and high quality food.

This barbecue restaurant is located at sweet corner, a crossroad with a few of dessert bakeries on its corners. Right there at one of them called "Ramis" one can have a slice of the best domestic cake, as well as some other cakes. Across from it, in "DM - Demirovich" one can have the best Vienna slice, caramel-walnut and bohemian cake. During summer time, ice-cream parlor "Egypt" should be open, and serving its famous and unique vanilla, chocolate and hazelnut ice-cream. It is located on Ferhadia street, just across from Ferhadia mosque. The best tahan-halva, if not in the world, then in Bosnia for sure, one can try in "TIP-TOP" next to TAXI station on Bashcharshia, some 100-150 meters (yards) North of Sebilj. And do get a couple of kilograms extra to take back with you, cause tahan-halva cannot get spoilt, as long as it is kept in a tightly closed container.

In the last few years, a bunch of DONNER-KEBAB places opened up. The best one is "Tuba-Donner" in Čizmedžiluk street, right next to beys mosque. "ADK" and "Kurto" Donner is quite OK, as well.

Poznate Sarajlije - Celebrities from Sarajevo

Isa-Beg Isaković, Founder of Sarajevo
Alija Izetbegović, The first president of BiH
Mustaj-Beg Fadilpašić (1830-1892), mayor
Muhamed Nerkesija Es-Seraji (1592-1634), poet
Vladimir Perić "Valter", antifashist
Vladimir Prelog (born 1906), Nobel prize winner for Chemistry
Ivica Osim (born 1941), football coach
Jasmila Žbanić (born 1974), director
Goran Bregović (born 1950), composer
Branko Crvenkovski (born 1962), President of the Republic of Macedonia
David Elazar (1925-1976), general
Asim Ferhatović (1933-1987), footballer
Aleksandar Hemon, writer
Almir Imširević, playwriter
Benjamin Isović, playwriter, director
Miljenko Jergović (born 1966), writer
Nehemija Kije Kajon (1650-1726), Jewish mystic
Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević (1865-1908), poet
Hamdija Kreševljaković (1888-1959), historian
Nemanja (Emir) Kusturica (born 1954 - 1992 ("died" when he betrayed Bosnia))
Fra Grgo Martić (1822-1905), priest
Juraj Neidhart (1918-1979), architect
Safet Isović (1936-2007), singer
Danis Tanović (born 1969), Oscar winning director
David Pardo (1719-1792), rabbi
Sima Milutinović Sarajlija (1790-1847), poet
Abdulah Sidran (born 1944), writer
Ivan Straus (born 1928), architect
Boris Tadić (born 1958), President of Serbia
Mladen Savović (born 1950), engineer
Zeljko Bebek (born 1945), f. lead singer of Bijelo Dugme
Mladen Vojičić aka Tifa, f. lead singer of Bijelo Dugme
Tomo Miličević (born 1979), musician
Ivana Miličević (born 1974), actress
Davor Sučić (Sejo Sexon) (born 1961), musician
Dubravko Brigić (1959-1998) poet, journalist
Branko Đurić Đuro (born 1962), actor and director
Radivoje Andrić (born 1967), director
Mila Pivnički, former first lady of Canada
Gavrilo Princip (1894-1918), member of Young Bosnia
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Note: Not all the people from this list were born in Sarajevo, but they have lived and accomplished something in it.
Svi nabrojani nisu rođeni u Sarajevu, ali su u njemu živjeli i postigli određena dostignuća.

Turist u Sarajevu (Tourist in Sarajevo)

Sarajevo - grad gdje se svi osjećaju kao domaći. Grad koji ima takvu atmosferu, da vam se iz njega ne odlazi, a oni koji odu traže načina da se vrate. Ovdje ljudi troše svoje vrijeme na prijateljstvo. Ovdje ljude religije ne razjedinjuju, već ujedinjuju. U Sarajevu se na prostoru od 1 kvadratnog kilometra mogu naći i džamije, i pravoslavne crkve, i katolička katedrala i jevrejska sinagoga, i praktično istovremeno se mogu čuti crkvena zvona i napjev mujezina, koji ezanom poziva vjernike na molitvu.

Šetnja Sarajevom je u stvari šetnja njegovom historijom, od Baščeršije - Osmanlijskog dijela, Katedrale - čiju je okolinu izgradila Austrougarska monarhija, pa do današnjih, modernih zgrada, koje se prostiru u zapadnom dijelu Sarajevskog polja. Grad, a posebno njegov centar je pun bašti i kafana, gdje od jutra do kasno u noč Sarajlije sjede, piju kahve i uživaju. Sarajevo je grad gdje se čovjek ne cijeni po njegovom matrijalnom dobru, nego po broju prijatelja koje ima.

Ramazanska sofra

Uz Ramazan se prave iftari, dočekuju gosti i radi dnevnog posta često se sjeli do kasno u noć. To je također vrijeme praznovanja u BiH. Na sofri se u ramazansko vrijeme različita jela mogu naći, a omiljena i najčešća su: begova, škembe, teleća i tarhana čorba, bosanski lonac i krompir kalja, pite, burek, buredžci, sarma, sarma u japraku, sogan dolma, šakavci, rižni i jerišćev pilav, slatka pita od jabuka ili višanja, halva i tahan-halva, hurmašica, kadaif i ekmek-kadaif, hošaf, sutlija, tufahija...
Poslije ramazana dolazi ramazanski bajram, a za bajram i bajramska sofra. Pošto je bajram praznik, i jela koja se prave su praznična. Bez tepsije balkave se teško može proći, a uz baklavu se usput naprave ružice i divit baklave. Neko u agdu za ružicu doda i ružine vode, pa ružice na ruže mirišu. Pa bujrum, ko voli, nek izvoli...

Sofra - šta je to?

U Turskom jeziku se riječ sofra koristi sa značenjem trpeze, stola za objed, a u bosanskom jeziku često ima prošireno značenje i na samo jelo pripremljeno i postavljeno bilo na sto ili na demirliju. Često se mogu čuti rijeći matera i nana svojim mlađim ukućanima: "Ne diraj sofre, dolaze nam gosti" što znači: "Ne diraj jela koje je servirano za goste" ili rijeći: "Bujrum, sofra je spremna" to jest: "Izvolite, jelo je servirano."

Mnogi nacionalni restorani - aščinice u Bosni i Hercegovini nose ovo ime - "Sofra".