The Latin Bridge is a modest Ottoman stone bridge over the Miljacka River, unremarkable architecturally. What makes it one of the most significant bridges in the world is what happened at its northern end on 28 June 1914: the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, by Gavrilo Princip. The shot that killed the Archduke and his wife Sophie set off the chain of mobilisations and treaty obligations that produced World War I.
The spot is marked by a small plaque and a modest museum in the corner building. The Museum of Sarajevo covers the assassination in considerable detail — the weapons, the planning, the would-be assassins who lost their nerve that morning before Princip took his shot. The bridge itself is worth walking across just for the act of crossing it, though be careful in summer when tour groups back up on the narrow pavement.