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Mostar - Bosnia
Mostar (kyrillisk: Мостар) er en by og en kommune i kantonen Hercegovina-Neretva i Bosnia-Hercegovina. Foreløpige tall fra folketellingen i 2013 viste at Mostar hadde 113 169 innbyggere.[1]
Mostar har sitt navn etter den gamle broa Stari Most over elva Neretva og såkalte «brovokterne» (mostari), soldater som passet på broa og som bodde i to tårn på hver sin side av den gamle broa. 9. november 1993 ble Stari Most, som hadde stått siden 1566, ødelagt av kroatiske styrker. Etter krigen ble den rekonstruert og gjenåpnet 23. juli2004.
Mostar ble tatt opp på UNESCOs verdensarvliste i 2005.
Bruce Lee in Mostar
The statue was the first public monument to Bruce Lee unveiled in the world, with a statue in Hong Kong being revealed one day later marking what would have been the Chinese star's 65th birthday.
The project of the statue was spearheaded by the youth group Mostar Urban Movement, who saw the statue as "an attempt to question symbols, old and new, by mixing up high grandeur with mass culture and kung fu." Bruce Lee was chosen by organisers as a symbol of the fight against ethnic divisions. Lee, who was an American of Chinese descent and famous martial arts actor, represented to the residents of Mostar a bridging of cultures. "One thing we all have in common is Bruce Lee."
In a city with a reputation for violence, the dynamic movie star was a symbol of "loyalty, skill, friendship and justice."