Banja Luka Basic Tour

The departure is from the parking lot under the walls of the Kastel fortress. The group passes through the fortress, the site of the oldest part of the city, and exits to the main watercourse, the river Vrbas. After that, you pass by the Safikad grave, which is associated with the most famous Banja Luka legend. Nearby is the most valuable and famous Ferhadija mosque from the end of the 16th century. The next stop with the group is Krajina Square, where there is a memorial plaque to the catastrophic earthquake that struck Banja Luka in 1969. After that, you pass through the main pedestrian street Gospodska and stop at the Church of Christ the Savior, in the vicinity of which there is a legacy from the Kingdom of Yugoslavia when Banja Luka was the center of one of the 9 banovinas, as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art. In the extension of the pedestrian street, there are the Archives, the Parliament and the National Theater buildings, and the tour ends at the Roman Catholic Church of St. Bonaventure, who was also visited by the Pope.