Andrićgrad

Andrićgrad (, lit. "Andrić's town") is the name of a construction project located in Višegrad, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina by film director Emir Kusturica. The town is dedicated to the Yugoslav novelist and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate Ivo Andrić.

At the same site, some of the worst ethnic cleansing of the Bosnian wars took place only two decades before construction started.

Construction of Andrićgrad, also known as Kamengrad (Каменград, "Stonetown") started on 28 June 2011 (Vidovdan, and was officially opened on 28 June 2014, on Vidovdan (also exactly 100 years since Archduke Franz was shot). Andrićgrad is located several kilometers from Kusturica's first town, Drvengrad, in Serbia.

Andrićgrad was, in 2022, the venue used for the twelfth edition of Bina Mira, a youth festival that focuses on peace and equality between nations, that drew over 80 students from Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.

Overview Andrićgrad is located near the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and stretches from the bridge up to the confluence of the Rzav River. jeftineaviokarte.rs After Küstendorf (), this is the second village Kusturica created from scratch. Andrićgrad is to be used as a location for Kusturica's film adaptation of the novel The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić.

The town has a lot of shops and services for incoming guests, amongst them are a gift shop, a kneipe, a restaurant, a cinema, a book shop and a gallery.

Honorary citizens Honorary citizens are people who have been awarded with Key to the City. They are:

Milorad Dodik, politician in Bosnia and Herzegovina Vuk Jeremić, President of the 67th session of the UN General Assembly Matija Bećković, writer Novak Đoković, tennis player

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