Sarajevo is shaking off the dust of war to regain its old glory

Since the war stopped, the Eggman Hotel has been deserted and ignored by everyone.

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When the siege of Sarajevo began in 1992, the Serbian army, led by Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic, was stationed on the mountains around Sarajevo. Mladic chose his headquarters at the Eggman Hotel, an impressive piece of architecture that was considered the jewel of the 1984 Winter Olympics. The hotel was part of the Olympic Village and a base for ski jumps and alpine skiers. But Mladic, who is now serving a life sentence for genocide and crimes against humanity, used this hotel to oversee the bombing of the city. During the four years of the war, the hotel was bombed and destroyed, but since the war stopped it has been deserted and ignored by everyone except the muralists and seasonal tourists.

Now that the 30th anniversary of the city siege approaches, the hotel looks set to be restored to its old glory in its Olympic glory days.

The Igman Hotel was sold last week after 13 attempts by the Sarajevo city authorities.

Its new owners, including Bosnian footballer Amir Granov, paid about 5.1 million Bosnian marks (2.2 million pounds), and Granov told local media that the new owners would spend another six million pounds to restore the hotel, hoping that Sarajevo would become a tourist destination. New to country visitors.

One of Granov's top priorities is the interest in his bid for the hotel, Dimitri Hegmann, who owns Berlin's Presor nightclub. He is unique and has a special energy, but I do not intend to own him.”

The hotel consists of 162 rooms, in addition to a cinema, which made Hegmann believe that this would make it an ideal place, and would provide all the conditions that existed in the Presor night club, which was established after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and which provided a suitable place for young people from the East to mingle. Germany with peers from its west.

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