Stari Most: rebuilding more than a historic bridge in Mostar

‘In everything that man pushed by his vital instinct, builds and raises, for me, nothing is more beautiful or more precious than bridges. Bridges are more important than houses, more sacred because they are more useful than temples. They belong to everybody and they are the same for everybody, always built in the right place in which the major part of human necessity crosses, more durable than all other constructions.’ (Ivo Andric)