Andrićgrad

ABOUT THIS ATTRACTION

Andrićgrad is a modern cultural and tourism complex built beside the confluence of the Rzav and the Drina, a short distance from the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge and the historic core of Višegrad. It was conceived by the filmmaker Emir Kusturica and developed from 2011 onward, largely completed in the mid-2010s, as a project built around the life and work of Ivo Andrić — the writer whose name the complex carries. It is laid out as a small stone town of streets, squares and buildings in a mixed historical style drawing on Byzantine, Ottoman and medieval Serbian architecture, and it houses a theatre, exhibition spaces, shops, cafés and a statue of Andrić himself at its centre. Andrićgrad is not the historic town of Višegrad: it is a contemporary construction, built on land between the rivers, and it stands as a cultural project and a visitor destination rather than as an old quarter. For a visitor it is best understood as a deliberate companion to the bridge and the old town — a modern interpretation of the literary and historical world of Andrić’s Višegrad, set beside the real one. It is the place where the town’s Andrić heritage is most visibly staged, and a useful orientation point for a visit built around the writer and the bridge.