2024

PONT ELEN SKOK

Works of art to see

This 16th-century Ottoman bridge (Еленски Скок Мост/Elenski Skok Most, or Elen Skok Köprüsü in Turkish) owes its name "deer jump" to a legend according to which a deer hunted in Mogorče managed to cross the Mala Reka here, before being cured by the inhabitants of Galičnik. The superb stone arch supports a 23 m-long deck. The structure is said to have been designed by Mimar Hajrudin (c. 1490-1570), the designer of the famous Old Bridge in Mostar (1566), Bosnia-Herzegovina. Today, it is used only by hikers and flocks of sheep.

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