Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina

Morića Han

Morića Han is the last surviving Ottoman caravanserai (han) in Sarajevo: an inn where travelling merchants slept on the upper floor while their horses and goods were kept below.

The tree-shaded inner courtyard of Morića Han in Sarajevo, with café tables below the white upper floor of the old caravanserai
Photo: Luca Conti from Senigallia, Italy · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

About Morića Han

It belonged to the endowment (vakuf) of Gazi Husrev-beg, the 16th-century governor who shaped much of old Sarajevo, and is first recorded in 1551. Over the centuries it burned and was rebuilt several times, and the building you see today is the result of later restorations.

Behind the street entrance opens a quiet inner courtyard with a large tree, a café and a restaurant under the wooden galleries. A Persian carpet shop and small craft stores occupy the old ground-floor rooms, and lines of Persian poetry are written on the walls.

Morića Han stands on Sarači street in the middle of Baščaršija, a short walk from the Sebilj and the Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque, and makes an easy coffee stop during a walk through the old bazaar.

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