Four arches
From 1574.
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A beautiful stone Ottoman bridge over the Trebišnjica river near Trebinje in Bosnia's far south, built in 1574 by the Grand Vizier Mehmed Paša Sokolović, builder of the Višegrad bridge, and named after Arslan Agha, who guarded it and collected its tolls, so his family's name stuck to it. It runs on four large stone arches with small openings between them to relieve flood pressure, and its form is mirrored in the calm river in one of Bosnia's loveliest views. It originally stood further upstream; when a dam was built there in the 1960s it was taken apart stone by stone and reassembled on its present site. Crossing is free and always open, for pedestrians only. Its banks have grass and trees for a picnic, and it is loveliest at sunset and in autumn. Trebinje is about half an hour by car from Dubrovnik in Croatia, so many combine it in a day trip from the coast; the bridge is minutes from the old town.
From 1574.
On the Trebišnjica.
Rebuilt stone by stone.
Over the Trebišnjica river, on the edge of Trebinje, southern Bosnia
No: in the 1960s it was moved stone by stone to its present site before a dam flooded the old one.
