looks comes from 1703, when the Turks built the lower town), - Remains of the medieval culture (late antique basilica from VI century in the centre of Breza), - Stećaks – standing tombstones (a necropolis of stećaks and “Zagošci’s stećak” in Zagošca near Kakanj – stećak is now in the botanical garden of the National Museum in Sarajevo), - The big stećak – obelisk of the king Tvrtko near Olovo, - The places where in the ancient past important historical events happened (Bilino field Zenica, in 1203 Kulin ban gave up the Bogumilism on the behalf of his subjects and avoided the crusade against Bosnia), a synagogue in Zenica, etc. 5. Visiting the old mosques, Moslem praying-places and churches that became traditional places of gathering Islamic, Catholic and Orthodox believers, what gives real chances for developing and upgrading religious tourism (Lastavica near Zenica, mosque “Kuršumlija” from 1560 in Maglaj, “Our Lady from Olovo” in Olovo, St. Anthony of Padua Usora, Old church from Vareš “Little church” from XVI century, etc). 6. Visiting the museums in Zenica, Visoko, Kraljeva Sutjeska with the desire for an additional information about the history of this region, culture and cusNekropola stećaka u Ularicama
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toms, rich treasury of archaeological exhibits, written traces and artistic works. 7. In the tourist offer an important place take cultural, sports and other traditional festivals. There are usual traditional outings in some municipalities – early rising at a specific day in the year, like: Ćimburijada in Zenica (21 March – the first day of spring), teferić at Buk and Maoča at the area of the municipalities of Olovo and Zavidovići, Žepče, etc. 8. Big shopping malls in Zenica, Tešanj, Kakanj, Doboj South, Zavidovići and other places, 16 years old tradition of the international fair “ZEPS” in Zenica, the biggest and the most important fair in BiH, longstanding tradition of local fairs in Visoko, Žepče, Tešanj and other places are an objective presumption for development of so called shopping tourism and business tourism in Zenica-Doboj Canton. The development of tourism is directly connected to the conditions in the field of catering industry, and especially to the accomodation capacities in hotels, motels, hostels, mountain houses, scouting houses and camps, fishing houses and other accomodation capacities that can be used for accomodation of tourists, if necessary (dormitory, pupil hostels, private accomodation, etc). 9. Hotels, Motels and hostels In the area of Zenica-Doboj Canton there are 38 inns with the basic capacity of over 1500 beds.
Stećak necropolis in Ularice
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