The most beautiful spot of former Yugoslavia: Buna spring at Blagaj with Dervish Khanqah above it (PHOTO)

Vrelo Bune kod Blagaja, i iznad njega derviška tekija iz 1520. godine. Foto: Wikimedia Commons/Talha Şamil Çakır

River Buna in Herzegovina is just 9 km long: Its spring is below the limestone cut in Blagaj, 12 km southeast from Mostar, and it flows into Neretva at the village Buna. It has two tributaries, river Bunica which is six km long, and the river Posrt which exists only during winter.

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Its spring near Blagaj can be easily named the most beautiful spot in former Yugoslavia. The newly arrived Ottomans built the dervish Khanqah above the very source in 1520 because it is impossible to imagine the better location for a building where mystics gather together and who think about God, trying to merge with him. 

The blue color of Buna is unreal. Considering that it has a flow of 30-43 cubic meters per seconds, it's certainly one of the strongest in Europe, and certainly one of the most beautiful. The water that springs here is icy and clean, and according to science, it flows underground for 19.5 km until it sees the light of the day.

Nestvarno plavetnilo reke Bune na njenom vrelu kod Blagaja. Foto: Wikimedia Commons/Antidiskriminator

Besides the river Zeta in Montenegro, and Neretva, Buna is one of the three rivers in the entire world where South-mouth trout (Salmo obtusirostris salonitana) can be found, the endemic species of Yugoslavia. Its variation that lives in Buna and Neretva is also called Neretva south-mouth trout. Their spawn place is just below the spring.

There are four bridges over Buna, although it is not a big river, two in Blagaj, one in Kosur, and one at the village Buna. The oldest is Karadjoz-beg bridge with five arches, built before 1570, and Lehina bridge should be mentioned, built before 1664.

It is interesting that there is another river called Buna on Balkans, but it is pronounced differently, and it doesn't have the same meaning because it is no in the Serbian language, but in Albanian. It is the river we call Bojana.

(Telegraf.co.uk)