Sarajevo war ruins

Sarajevo war ruins - darkometer rating : 6 - Sarajevo still bears many scars from the siege during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina . While some of the most iconic damaged buildings (such as the City Hall or the parliament building) have been renovated, others have been torn down, but yet others are still pretty much unchanged since the war. > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > Photos More background info: see under Sarajevo . What there is to see: As the title suggests, buildings that were partly (or largely) destroyed during the shelling of Sajarevo in the war between 1992 and 1995. Almost all buildings sustained some degree of damage, but a few stand out and are worth a special mention here (NOTE: things change – I cannot guarantee that any of these ruins are indeed still in the state described and depicted here): - The Old People's Home building – this is probably the most impressive of all of Sarajevo's war ruinsl. It is located off Bulevar Meše Selimovića, right next door to the Radon Plaza hotel and business centre not far from the airport. The building that apparently was to serve as an old people's home was brand new and not yet occupied when the war broke out. The guide I had when I visited Sarajevo in August 2009 pointed out that the fact that the building was unoccupied partly accounts for it being so drastically pockmarked with bullet holes: apparently, not all Bosnian Serb soldiers were keen on shooting at Sarajevo's civilian population, so some deliberately used up the rounds of ammunition allocated to them b disproportionately targeting this building, which they knew was empty.