![]() "It's like a time machine," said the official guide, Jelica Plecic.Īndricgrad, as it will be known, is due for completion in 2014. The Spanish cafe, which looks on to a broad square, dominated by a statue of the author, is a nod in the direction of Andric's admiration for his fellow chronicler of suffering and inhumanity, the Spanish painter Francisco Goya. ![]() There will be an Ottoman caravanserai, an Austro-Hungarian academy of fine arts, an Orthodox church, a bookshop, a new town hall, a hotel, a marina, a helipad and an opera house in which Kusturica plans to stage the premiere of a work he is writing, based on Andric's masterpiece. ![]() When it is finished, his mini-town – on a spit of land between the Drina and a tributary – will have about 50 buildings. Kusturica said he first had the idea for the project when he stopped in the town during his honeymoon in 1978. Published in 1945 by the Nobel laureate Ivo Andric, The Bridge on the Drina tells the violent story of Bosnia through events on and around Visegrad's magnificent 16th-century Ottoman bridge. In one of the most beautiful spots in the Balkans, the former Yugoslavia's most celebrated film director was showing the Guardian around his most ambitious and controversial project to date – a town within a town that will echo in wood and stone the region's greatest work of fiction. Confused? A lot of people who come here will be. ![]()
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