The story of Arslanagić Bridge

This bridge has moved house. According to records in the Dubrovnik archives, work on it began in 1568 with 10 masons, and Mehmed Paša Sokolović had it built; it opened in 1574. It linked central Bosnia with Novi, today's Herceg Novi, and almost all trade crossed it, mostly salt. A man named Arslan-aga was given the job of collecting the toll and built a house beside it.

A whole village grew up there, and the bridge took his name. In 1965 the authorities created the Gorica reservoir for a hydroelectric plant, and the bridge lay underwater for a year. In 1966 it was taken apart stone by stone.

From 1970 the numbered blocks were carried by boat and reassembled over two years, a few kilometres downstream in Gradina. Relocated bridges cannot receive UNESCO protection, but since 2006 it has been a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the war it was renamed Perović Bridge, yet people still call it by its original name.