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Novi Grad, Sarajevo, Sarajevo — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Novi Grad, the westernmost of Sarajevo's four municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, takes in the villages of Bojnik and Rečica.
About Novi Grad, Sarajevo
Where to stay in Novi Grad, Sarajevo
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Novi Grad is where Sarajevo does its everyday living, so the beds here sit among apartment quarters and everyday shops rather than in a purpose-built hotel district. Otoka is the obvious anchor. Rooms around Olimpijski Bazen Otoka keep a swimming hall and a short run into the rest of Sarajevo within reach.
Further out, Bojnik and Rečica hold the municipality's village edge, useful if you are driving and want a yard rather than a stairwell. Expect quiet nights.
About Novi Grad, Sarajevo
What are the main landmarks in Novi Grad, Sarajevo?
Olimpijski Bazen Otoka is the local fixture. The swimming complex at Otoka gives Novi Grad a sports address of its own, and it stands among the few landmarks that belong to the municipality rather than to the wider city. The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina sit together east along the corridor that ties this end of Sarajevo to the older quarters.
Beside them stands the ICAR Canned Beef Monument. It commemorates a tinned beef ration, and it treats an unglamorous subject with a straight face.
What is the history of Novi Grad, Sarajevo?
Novi Grad means new town. The label fits a municipality built out long after the older parts of Sarajevo had taken their shape, on the flatter ground at the western end of the city. Bojnik and Rečica came the other way round.
Both are villages the municipality absorbed rather than built, and they still mark the line at which Novi Grad stops behaving like a city and starts behaving like farmland. Four municipalities make up Sarajevo, and this is the westernmost of them.
Where is Novi Grad, Sarajevo?
Novi Grad takes the western end of Sarajevo, outermost of the four municipalities that form the city, with the villages Bojnik and Rečica beyond its blocks.
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Updated September 2026