Hotel in Sarajevo is
Hotel Diamond Rain. Maybe something gets lost in translation. Nice little hotel; mine is a mansard room, the bed is comfy, the bathroom good and the aircon works well, and quietly!
Its a 5-10 min walk up a hill from the river and the beginning of the old town. Too narrow for our bus to get to, so they transferred our bags in to a another vehicle while we walked up, and the bags were waiting when we got there.
We choofed off to a walking tour, led by a local guide. After crossing the Miljaka river (slow moving ATM),
first stop was the point where
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princep as the archduke was parading through the streets of Sarajevo in an open car. The Austro-Hungarians were colonial occupiers of the Balkans, having tipped out the Ottomans
en.wikipedia.org
... which was the trigger for WW1. The Austro-Hungarians attacked Serbia, the Russians came to support Serbia, the Germans joined the Austrians and the Germans then attacked France.
This is where it happened. There are 2 footsteps (Princep's) in the pavement under the image at the corner of the left side.
Taken seconds before
There were 4-5 assassins. Earlier in the parade, one of them lobbed a grenade at the car, and this was fended off by the Archduke, then exploded. After regrouping, confident that the danger was passed, the parage continued and Princep killed the Archduke and his wife (likely by mistake) a few minutes later.
I had read Assassin by Tim Butcher and it was great prep for understanding a lot of Bosnia's history, not just the assassination.
Tim Butcher brings his own experience of Yugoslavian conflict to bear on this revelatory portrait of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassin, Gavrilo Princip , writes Christopher Clark
www.theguardian.com