The remains of the Basilica in Crkvine, Cim, from early Christianity represent the most significant archelogical site from this period. Besides the architecture, on this site there have been found the fragments of the stone plastics, and numerous tombs from the late Hellenic times, the early Christanity and the late Middle Ages. A representative sacral building from the early Christianity has also been found (5-6A.D). 
Among the most mysterious and romantic historical and artistic remains of the country of the Middle Ages, are the monumental tombstones, stećci, which stand out all over Bosnia Herzegovina (but also in Croatia and Montenegro) and they represent a legendary symbol of these places.Their precise origins are yet unknown and, out of the 60,000 tombstones which have come to light, about 10,000 have symbolic decorations reminding of the sun and the moon, the family, the land, hunting, war and dancing; the most common image depicts a man with his right arm raised. Only a few of these fascinating tombstones are inscribed. Having emerged during the 12th century, these stećci became common mainly between the 14th and 15th century.
During the Ottoman period, the Jewish community had settled in Mostar, completing the multicultural nature of this city. The Synagogue, founded in 1889 in the suburb of Brankovac, was rebuilt in 1952 and donated to the Puppet theatre. In 1999, in the city’s Jewish Cemetery, a memorial was erected to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
On the Radobolja River, near to where it joins the Neretva, close to the Old Bridge, stands the Crooked Bridge, a miniature version of The Old Bridge -Stari Most. Built in 1558, eight years prior to the more famous Old Bridge, it is believed to have been built as a trial attempt for the following, more daring, construction. Destroyed in 2001 by the river flooding, it has recently been rebuilt.
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