Trebinje Old Town (Stari Grad)

The walled Ottoman-Austro-Hungarian core, with arcaded cafes and plane trees

The walled Ottoman core of Trebinje, enclosed by a hexagon of 18th-century stone walls and entered through one of two gates. Inside, the streets are narrow and stone-paved; the central Osman-paša Resulbegović Mosque dates from the 17th century but the surrounding buildings are mostly Austro-Hungarian from the late 1800s, with shuttered windows and modest stucco facades.

The old town is now packed with cafes, small bars, and a few craft shops, and is genuinely lived in — not a museum. Allow an hour to walk it slowly. At dusk, locals begin the korzo, the evening promenade up and down the plane-tree-lined Slavoluk pobjede (Victory Square) just outside the walls. Free; the mosque is open during prayer times.

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The old town is a curious mash-up: Ottoman walls built between 1706 and 1722 enclose an interior almost entirely rebuilt by the Austro-Hungarians after they annexed Bosnia in 1878. So you walk in through a Turkish gate and emerge into a Habsburg square — both equally Trebinje.