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Ciglane, Sarajevo — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Ciglane is a brutalist hillside neighbourhood of Sarajevo on Crni Vrh, and the only one in the city with a funicular of its own, the Kosi Lift.
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Where to stay in Ciglane
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Ciglane climbs the Crni Vrh slope a short way out from the middle of Sarajevo. Beds are scarce. The Kosi Lift is the practical link between the upper terraces and the streets below, so a night up here means a short ride rather than a long climb, and most visitors book down in Centar Sarajevo and come up to see the brutalist blocks instead.
Quiet nights near the centre suit you here.
Few places to stay in Ciglane — most visitors book in Sarajevo nearby.
About Ciglane
What are the main landmarks in Ciglane?
Ciglane's landmark moves. No other neighbourhood in Sarajevo runs a funicular of its own, and the Kosi Lift climbing the flank of Crni Vrh has become the shorthand for the place in a way no single building manages. Then there is the concrete itself.
Stepped terraces from the 1970s give Ciglane a hard, deliberate outline against everything around it.
What is the history of Ciglane?
Ciglane arrived all at once. Construction on the Crni Vrh hill ran through the 1970s, and what went up was a single planned neighbourhood in the brutalist idiom of that decade rather than a quarter that accumulated street by street. The Municipality of Centar Sarajevo counts it as one of nineteen local communities.
Where is Ciglane?
Ciglane holds a slope of Crni Vrh inside the Centar Sarajevo municipality, its terraces stacked high enough that the Kosi Lift does the climbing.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Ciglane?
Ciglane: waking up on the Crni Vrh terraces and riding the funicular down. Centar Sarajevo: sleeping low in the municipality Ciglane belongs to.
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Updated September 2026