Andrićgrad

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Andrićgrad Андрићград
Town
Andrićgrad Location within Bosnia and Herzegovina
Coordinates: 43°47′11.2092″N 19°17′38.817″E / 43.786447000°N 19.29411583°E / 43.786447000; 19.29411583Coordinates: 43°47′11.2092″N 19°17′38.817″E / 43.786447000°N 19.29411583°E / 43.786447000; 19.29411583
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Municipality	Višegrad
Founded by	Emir Kusturica
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
Website	andricgrad.com

Andrićgrad (Serbian Cyrillic: Андрићград, lit. "Andrić's town") is the name of a construction project located in Višegrad, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina by film director Emir Kusturica. The town is dedicated to Yugoslav novelist and Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andrić.

Construction of Andrićgrad, also known as Kamengrad (Каменград, "Stonetown") started on 28 June 2011,^[1] and was officially opened on 28 June 2014, on Vidovdan.^[2] Andrićgrad is located several kilometers from Kusturica's first town, Drvengrad, in Serbia.

Overview[]

Main entrance of Andrićgrad

Andrićgrad is located near the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and stretches from the bridge up to the confluence of the Rzav River.^[3] After Drvengrad (English: Woodentown), this is the second village Kusturica created from scratch. Andrićgrad is to be used as a location for Kusturica's new film Na Drini ćuprija, based on the novel The Bridge on the Drina by Nobel Prize for Literature laureate Ivo Andrić.^{[citation needed]}

Honorary citizens[]

Honorary citizens are people who have been awarded with Key to the City. They are:^[4]

• Milorad Dodik, President of Republika Srpska
• Vuk Jeremić, President of the 67th session of the UN General Assembly
• Matija Bećković, writer
• Novak Đoković, tennis player

See also[]

• Drvengrad

Gallery[]

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  Main square of Andrićgrad.

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  Andrićgrad during opening ceremony on 28 June 2014.

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  Main street in Andrićgrad.

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  Square in Andrićgrad.

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  Serbian medieval architecture

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  Oriental architecture

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  Andrićgrad at night.

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  Petar II Petrović-Njegoš monument

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  Tourist boat

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  Mural

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  Petar II Petrović Njegoš Square

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  Andrićgrad and Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Andrićgrad.

• Official website
• Official website (under construction, under name Kamengrad)
• About Andricgrad at website of Tourist organization of Visegrad