Mostar in the rain, across a deep valley of the Neretva River, has many Turkish-style buildings and old bridges in the city, including Ottoman public baths, mosques, monasteries, ancient towers, bell towers, stone arch bridges, prisons, umbrella shops, restaurants and other monuments. The valley is beautiful and spectacular, the rivers are clear and green, the ancient city is simple and unpretentious, compared to other European towns, it is less exquisite but more historical... The most famous of the city is a 16th-century ancient bridge, which was destroyed after 427 years after it was erected and rebuilt during the war. Diving on the bridge before the war broke out was the young men's annual sport, competing against each other to win the favor of the girls in the same city. The story behind the city made visitors linger about the place: there have been Catholic Croesians on the west side of the bridge, Bosnians on the east side of the Muslim faith, and there have been hostility and occasional conflicts on both sides of the city because of different beliefs. Although they have churches or mosques across the river, they still can't live in peace without the water after more than 400 years. The soldiers in the war destroyed the bridge and cut off the passages that used to connect the East and West worlds.