Yes, literature fans, that is the bridge on the Drina.
Photo by Risto Šuković, 1914. The retreating Austro-Hungarian forces blew up two arches of the bridge to slow down the advancement of the Serbian army during the fall 1914 joint Serbian-Montenegrin offensive into Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ivo Andrić chose the blowing up the of the bridge as the final scene in his novel "The Bridge on the Drina", which won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1961.
Photo courtesy of the National Library of Serbia, Great War collection (https://velikirat.nb.rs/)
by Books_Of_Jeremiah
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I went to Višegrad just to visit the bridge after reading the book. Stayed in the hotel there where Ivo wrote some of the book (or maybe got inspired?), which was Lotte’s bar in the book and also walked the street where I think the very final scenes may have taken place. Amazing to be there, but so much *really* tragic history