At 40 km south of Mostar, stands the lovely museum-city of Stolac, a town of extremely antique origins (various remains point to a prehistoric settlement) and crossed by the Bregava River, a tributary of the Neretva River. Stolac is the Herzegovina town with the greatest number of archaeological sites and historical-cultural monuments. It was conquered by the Turks in 1466 and this explains its Ottoman architecture. Amongst the most important buildings which survived the damage of the 1990’s war, mention goes to: the bridges Inat Ćuprija, Podgradska Ćuprija and Begovska Ćuprija, of the 15th and 19th centuries, and the Church of the Saints Peter and Paul of the 16th century.The historical heart of Stolac is represented by the medieval city of Vidoški grad (15th century ), while the Illyrian town Daorson, situated nearby and founded in the 3rd century B.C., is the archaeological area whose walls are a marvel to be admired by tourists.The Radimlja Necropolis, 2 km from Stolac, soars as one of the most fascinating and mysterious places of this area: here you can see dozens of “stećci”, tombstones of the ancient Bogomils, dating back to the 14th-16th centuries. Some are decorated with paintings and symbolic stone bas-reliefs, depicting hunting scenes, stylised men on horses, weapons and so on.

 

This necropolis is considered to be one of the most important of the country for its dimensions and for the value of its many ‘stećci’. Moreover, near Stolac, lovers of Ottoman architecture can visit the Mosque of the Sultan Selim (the Mosque of the Tsar, 16th century) and the Mosques of Uzunovići and of Ćuprija (18th century). The complex of residential oriental architecture called Begovina is also of great interest (19th century). Daily coaches (Bregava Trans) connect Mostar to Stolac and Radimlja.