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Stolac is located in southern Herzegovina, approximately 40 km southeast of
Mostar. It is a quasi-mythical town. Nobel laureate Ivo Andric, author of “The
Bridge on the Drina,” once pointed out that “if God created the world anywhere,
then he created it in Stolac”. Its municipality was indeed one of the most significant
centers of Bosnian culture, and Bosnia and Herzegovina considered proposing
Stolac for the UNESCO list of mankind’s cultural heritage in the 1980s.
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Stolac — the name means “stool” in the South Slavic dialects - is a beautiful village on the river Bregava, which cuts through the bleak, limestone mountains of Hercegovina, about 20 miles southeast of Mostar, the region’s main city.

It is sacred to Bosnians of all faiths, and was proposed as an international cultural site by the Bosnian government. The village’s surroundings include a massive deposit at Radimilje of pre-Islamic Bosnian burial monuments, or stecci, of inconceivable value for the world Bosnia is a country with five historical

identities: Muslim, Sephardic, Serbian, Croatian, and Gypsy.
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