MAY 1, 2025
Trebinje was another short pit stop. It is a smaller city on the banks of the Trebišnjica river. We stopped at a small park where we saw many people enjoying a small meal or simply a coffee in the shade of the lovely chestnut trees. I love this country!
In the middle of the square is a tall column, with the MONUMENT to the LIBERATORS. It marks the place where seventy-seven men and two women were hanged during the First World War. The angel holds a sword representing his role as keeper of the peace and freedom of the town of Trebinje. At his feet is a snake, a symbol of evil and suffering.
I think this was an Art Gallery. It was a cool looking building.
ARSLANAGIC BRIDGE was built in 1574 out of travertine. It is 80 meters (262.5 ft) long and 6 meters (19.6 ft) high. It was originally 10km further upstream from its present location but in 1965 it disappeared beneath the rising waters of the Gorica reservoir. Rescued stone by stone, it took six years to be finally reassembled.
The original rough texture was kept.
Hercegovacka Gracanica Temple (Church of the Holy Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery. It is located on a very high hill, overlooking Trebinje.
Although it looks like could be hundreds of years old, it was really built in 2000 to rehouse the bones of local poet-hero Jovan Dučić, who wanted to be buried on a hill above Trebinje in a church like “one in Kosovo”. It is a copy of the Gracanica in Kosovo.
The interior had beautiful frescoes, which really gave the appearance of an older building.
The floor had very nice mosaics as well.
It was a short pit stop. We carried on to Kotor, Montenegro.
An Old Lady with a Backpack 
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