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Visoko

Visoko is a city located in the Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Visoko
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The place

Visoko is a city located in the Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, the municipality had a population of 39,938 inhabitants with 11,205 living in Visoko town. Located between Zenica and Sarajevo, Visoko lies where the river Fojnica joins the Bosna.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Visoko

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Mile, archaeological site

    Mile is archaeological medieval site located in the Visoko basin, in present day Arnautovići village near Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The site was a medieval crowning and burial church of Bosnian kings during the Bosnian Banate and later Kingdom, between its construction in 1340 and the fall of the Kingdom in 1463.

    2.8 km · Medieval archaeological site Mile, in Arnautovići, with the Church of St. Nicholas, the coronation and burial church of the Bosnian kings (XIV and XV century) · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Visočica

    Visočica is a 213-metre-high hill in Bosnia and Herzegovina which is the site of the Old town of Visoki [ʋǐsɔkiː]. Since at least 2005, the hill has been the subject of a pseudoarchaeological belief that it is part of an ancient man-made pyramid complex.

    1 km · mountain near Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Šerefudin's White Mosque

    The Šerefudin's White Mosque is a mosque in Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The original mosque was built in 1477, and it was completely reconstructed and finished in 1980 under architect Zlatko Ugljen.

    1.1 km · Mosque located in Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Neolithic site Okolište

    Okolište is a Neolithic site, located in the municipality of Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was proclaimed a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

    5.9 km · Largest neolithic Butmir culture site · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Old town of Visoki

    The Old town of Visoki was a medieval royal castle town built during the 14th century on the top of the hill overlooking town of Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The first mention of the town was on 1 September 1355, in the charter "in castro nosto Visoka vocatum" written by Tvrtko I of Bosnia while he was a young ban.

    1.1 km · Castle town in Visoko · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Visoko

Airports
Sarajevo (SJJ), 22 km · Tuzla (TZL), 69 km · Mostar (OMO), 82 km
  • Dubrave Gornje → Visoko
    271 km · quickest by road, 7h 10m · €46–65
  • Mostar → Visoko
    78 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · $11–15
  • Mahovljani → Visoko
    126 km · quickest by road, 3h 40m · $17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Visoko

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Visoko. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere is not a lot of harbour facilities, but they have two quays (with limited depth) and a gangway for ferries.
  • Get inFerries are available to Neum from other cities on the Adriatic, connecting from Croatia and other countries.
  • Get inThere are no international ferries across the Adriatic from Italy, but these do operate from Dubrovnik and Split.
  • Get inFerries, some of them privately run, are also available on inland rivers and lakes.
  • Get aroundHitchhiking can be fun in Bosnia, as you will get rides from local people who you wouldn't otherwise encounter.

From Wikivoyage: Bosnia and Herzegovina, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    141 km
  2. 02
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    149 km
  3. 03
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    161 km
  4. 04
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    644 km
  5. 05
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    663 km

If you know how people move in Visoko – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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Visoko is 21 km from Sarajevo, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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