sentinels our eternal

Bosnians engraved on stećaks

"Neka oprosti gospođa Evropa, ona nema spomenike kulture. Pleme Inka u Americi ima spomenike, Egipat ima prave spomenike kulture. Neka oprosti gospođa Evropa, samo Bosna ima spomenike. 
Stećke.
Sta je stećak ?
Oličenje gorštaka Bosanca !
Šta radi Bosanac na stećku ?
Stoji uspravno! Digao glavu, digao ruku !
Ali nigdje, nigdje, nikad, niko nije pronašao stećak na kome Bosanac kleči i moli.
Na kom je prikazan kao sužanj."
(Miroslav Krleža, pisac)

"Let forgive Ms. Europe, it has no historical monuments. Inca tribe in America has monuments, Egypt has the real cultural monuments. Let forgive Ms. Europe, only Bosnia has monuments. 
Stećaks.
What is stećak? 
Embodiment of Bosnian highlander!
What does the Bosnian do on the stećak? 
He standing upright! Raised his head, raised his hand! 
But nowhere, nowhere, never, no one has found stećak where Bosnian kneels, begs or prays. 
Where he is shown as slave or servant." 
(Miroslav Krleza, writer)
 

Kamene duge juga Bosne i Hercegovine

Stari Most 1557-66, Hajrudin za Sulejmana Veličanstvenog

„Ako se najljepši mostovi  Njemačkog Carstva ...  uporede s mostovima  Bosne i Hercegovine,  dolazi se do zaključka da  su ove dvije pokrajine  bogatije lijepim starim  mostovima od svih njemačkih oblasti zajedno“.
(Robert Michel, pisac monografije o Mostaru)


"If the most beautiful bridges of the German Empire ... should be compared with bridges of Bosnia and Herzegovina, one comes to the conclusion that these two regions are richer in beautiful old bridges of all German regions together." 
(Robert Michel, writer of monography of Mostaru) 

Arslanagića Ćuprija 1574, Mehmed-paša Sokolović