See eight new national monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Commission for the Preservation of National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina today declared eight new properties as national monuments of our country, writes the Bosnian news agency Patria (NAP)

The building of the „Apollo“ cinema in Mis Irbina Street was declared a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina today. It is the oldest cinema in Sarajevo, dating back to 1912. It is considered one of the most beautiful cinemas in Europe. 

Among the remaining seven properties for which the Commission made a decision to declare them national monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina are: the Museum of Young Bosnia in Sarajevo, Hrustovačka Cave and Dabarska Cave in the municipality of Sanski Most, the Convent of the Sisters of the Daughters of Divine Love Josipovac in Tuzla, the Railway Section building in Prijedor, the residential-commercial building at Maršala Tita Street number 27 in Sarajevo, and the architectural ensemble of Novo Selo in Bijeljina.

Also, the Old Town of Dubrovnik near Ilijaš was declared a protected zone, where only research and conservation-restoration works are permitted.

In the Museum „Young Bosnia“ or, as it is now called „Sarajevo 1878 – 1918“, exhibits related to the Sarajevo assassination are displayed. The Museum of "Young Bosnia" was founded during the SFRY era in Sarajevo, at the site of the Sarajevo assassination.

Hrustovačka Cave is one of the tourist gems of the Municipality of Sanski Most. It is adorned with stalactites and stalagmites that leave visitors breathless.

(Hrustovačka Cave)

Dabarska Cave is also located in the area of the municipality of Sanski Most. It is situated near the source of the Dabar River in the village of the same name. One of the source branches of the Dabar has a periodic spring inside the cave itself.

(Dabarska Cave)

The abandoned convent "Josipovac" was built under the leadership of the founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Daughters of Divine Love, Franziska Lechner, who came to these regions at the invitation of the then Archbishop Josip Stadler.

(Convent "Josipovac" Photo: Tuzlarije.net)

After the Second World War, specifically in 1947, the property became state property. The nuns were forced to leave Josipovac and move to Breške, where they built the Emaus convent.