A town on the Trebisnjica
river, 26 km from Dubrovnik. The Arslanagic bridge spanning the
Trebisnjica (ca 80 m long) is one of the most attractive Turkish bridges in Bosnia and
Hercegovina. Built in the later half of the 16th century, it has two large and two small
semicircular arches, with three sluices. When a power plant was built on the river, the
bridge was moved from its original site to a location near town.
The clock-tower
(sahat-kula) commissioned by Osman Pasha Resulbegovic was erected by an
unidentified builder from the coastal region in the early 18th century. The square tower
is 18m high.
The early 18th-century Imperial
mosque (Careva dzamija) and the Osman Pasha Resulbegovic mosque,
completed in 1729, have lost much of their original appearance in the course of successive
alternations.
The Resulbegovic
or Bey´s house an orig example of Turkish civil architecture with the
furniture and the oriental inner decoration.The domestic and oriental specialties are served in the guests part of house. The summer garden with stage. Folkloristic concerts in the season.
The nucleus of the old
castle Kastel or Ban-vir, as it was known earlier, was
built in 1703. Initially the castle was triangular in plan, gradually rounded, with
several towers and gates. It was protected by walls on all sides, entry over a drawbridge.
The walls are in good repair.
