Jajce is due to the rich history have always attracted many tourists from around the world, and according to the director of the cultural-historical and natural heritage and the development of tourism potential Huso Hadzic, this year there were 100,000.
“We are visiting tourists, and every year it is more and more. Most of them come from our country, then Slovenia, Croatian, Italy, Germany, France, and lately there are more and from Serbia, Montenegro and the Polish” , said Hadzic.
He adds that aim to reach the pre-war level visits when the egg annually visited more than 250,000 tourists, and the city is rightly carried epithets continental Dubrovnik, Bosnian Venice, the city of stone, light and water, an open air museum … Egg in a written document of 1396, founded by Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić (1350th-1416th) Croatian viceroy, Grand Duke of Bosnian and duke of Split.
In the 15th century Jajce exceeds the authority of the Bosnian royal family Kotromanić, and here in 1461 and was crowned last Bosnian king Stjepan Tomasevic. The city frequently changed its rulers, a fortress of Jajce was the last that fell to the Ottomans in 1527. Ottoman rule in 1878 replaced the Austro-Hungarian. Also important to note that in this city during the Second World War established Tito’s Yugoslavia.
Although Jace in written sources until the 14th century, archaeological sites discovered in the city center indicate that the people in this region live even 6,000 years ago. They are especially important sites from the Roman period, both in the city and in the surrounding area. In those findings are the temple of the god Mithras and necropolis from the 4th century.
Otherwise tourism in the Bosnian town of intensively developing in the late 19th century, and in 1897 built the Grand Hotel, one of the first four hotels built in BiH, and it is interesting that the egg was declared in 1984 for the best tourist destination in the former Yugoslavia.
